The Greek adverb antikrus (ἄντικρυς) means directly opposite, straight ahead, over against — a nautical and geographical term of precision. It appears once in Acts 20:15 in Luke's eyewitness travel narrative of Paul's final voyage to Jerusalem.
Acts 20:15 records Paul's journey with precise geographical detail: "we arrived opposite (antikrus) Chios." This is one of Luke's "we" passages — he was present. The precision reflects eyewitness navigation memory. More importantly, Paul's final journey to Jerusalem (Acts 20–21) is framed by prophetic urgency: the Spirit warned in every city that chains and afflictions awaited. Yet Paul declared: "I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race." The small word antikrus grounds one of Scripture's most moving portraits of apostolic courage sailing straight toward the cross.