Acts 27:24

The message which God's angels bring from God unto his people, is, Fear not. Thus unto Daniel, Daniel 10:12,19; and thus unto the holy women that attended at our Lord's sepulchre, Matthew 28:5. There are all ministering spirits, Hebrews 1:14. Thou must be brought before; it is a forensic word, showing that Paul must be heard and tried by Caesar. God hath given thee all them that sail with thee; graciously bestowed all thy follow travellers upon thee at thy request: for it is implied, that Paul had prayed for them, and begged their lives of God; as Esther had the lives of her people at the hands of King Ahasuerus, Esther 7:3. There is a remarkable difference between Paul and Jonah in a storm, though Jonah professes as much as Paul does in the preceding verse, Jonah 1:9; but it was little more than a profession in Jonah, but Paul was actually in the fear and service of God; and doubtless there was as great a difference in their breasts during the storm. The true fear and service of God brings with it great peace and inward satisfaction, which, when any leave, they must, at least so long, be strangers unto, for there is no peace unto the wicked, Isaiah 48:22.