Acts 27:1

CHAPTER XXVII.

It being determined that Paul should be sent to Rome, he is

delivered to Julius, a centurion, 1.

They embark in a ship of Adramyttium, and come the next day to

Sidon, 2, 3.

They sail thence, and pass Cyprus, Cilicia, and Pamphylia, and

come to Myra, 4, 5.

They are transferred there to a ship of Alexandria going to

Italy; sail past Cnidus, Crete, Salmone, and come to the Fair

Havens, 6-8.

Paul predicts a disastrous voyage, 9-11.

They sail from the Fair Havens, in order to reach Crete, and

winter there; but, having a comparatively favourable wind,

they sail past Crete, and meet with a tempest, and are brought

into extreme peril and distress, 12-20.

Paul's exhortation and prediction of the loss of the ship,

21-26.

After having been tossed about in the Adriatic Sea, for many

days, they are at last shipwrecked on the island of Melita;

and the whole crew, consisting of two hundred and seventy-six

persons, escape safe to land, on broken fragments of the ship,

27-44.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXVII.

Verse Acts 27:1. And when it was determined, c.] That is, when the governor had given orders to carry Paul to Rome, according to his appeal together with other prisoners who were bound for the same place.

We should sail] By this it is evident that St. Luke was with Paul; and it is on this account that he was enabled to give such a circumstantial account of the voyage.

Julius, a centurion of Augustus' band.] Lipsius has found the name of this cohort on an ancient marble; see Lips. in Tacit. Hist. lib. ii. The same cohort is mentioned by Suetonius, in his life of Nero, 20.