Spain, and Crete. 60 xxvii When they came to My-Acts xxvii. Acts ra, the centurion finding a5. 3. xxvii hip bound for Italy, puts 5 Acts 8. them on board. When they came to Fair Actsxxvii. xxvii Havens, Paul advised that 8-14. Ithe voyage (it being a stormyl month, Puteoli. went. 60 On the voyage. Melita. 1 Proofs of the Their most remarkable Transactions Transactions. month, Acts xxvii. 9.); but Acts of the ship than to Paul, and fet fail for Crete: where Acts Acts At laft they are caft on 1. led on Paul's hand. But he xxviii. shook it off, and felt no harm; 3-6. according to our Saviour's promise, Mark xvi. 18. Publius, the chief man of Acts the island, lodged them three xxviii. days courteously. 7,8. Paul praying, and " lay ing his hanus" on his father, heals him of a fever, and a bloody flux; and others Acts of other diseases. xxviii. Syracufe. Rhegium. 12. Ver. 6 13. Paul lands at Syracufe; stays there three days; comes Ibid. to Rhegium; thence to Pu and teoli, where they found Bre Ver. thren, and, according to 14. their defire, tarried with them Acts seven days. xxviii. Appii Fo rum. Three Ta verns, 15. When the Brethren at Rome heard of Paul's being G3 on on the road thither with his companions, they meet him at Appii Forum. His companions were (1.) Timothy, who came with him from Macedonia, Acts xx. 4. and who writes, jointly with Paul, from Rome to the Philippians, Coloffians, and Philemon, Philip. i. 1. Coloff. i. 1. Philem. v. I. (2). Luke, who feems to have been a proselyte of the gate, that Paul met first at Antioch in Syria, Acts xi. 28, The Alexandrian MS. reading Συνεσραμμένων δὲ ἡμῶν. He became his companion at Frças, Acts xvi. 11. and went thence with Paul to Philippi, ver. 12. where Paul meets him again, Acts xx. 5, 6. and was particularly one that was chosen of the churches to carry the contributions to Jerufalem, 2 Cor. vii. 18, 19. when Paul was fent from Jerufalem as a prifoner hither. Paul likewife fends falutations from Luke, in two of his Epistles, written from hence, Coloff. iv. 14. Philem. v. 24. (.) Aristarchus, one of his fellow-travellers from Macedonia, Acts xx. 4. and xxvii. 2. and his fellow-prifoner There, Coloff. iv. 10. (4.) Tychicus, another of his fellow-travellers, Acts xx. 4.1 And time and place, Proofs of the Acts 16. And whom he sent from Paul writes the epistle from During the time of his imxxviii. prifonment, he converts, a mong others, some of Cæfar's houshold, Philip. iv. 22. several of the Prætorian foldiers, as well as the fervants. For he says, "his Phil. i. " bonds were manifest," 12, 13. ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ πραιπωρίῳ. Onefimus, the servant of PhileImon, a confiderable man at G4 Coloffe, lic journies. Paul's 5 Apofio Coloffe, Philem.ver. 10. And a vast multitude," Tacit. Paul is fuffered to dweil in his own hired house, while the reft of the prisoners are delivered to the captain of the guard. The mild treatment he met with must have proceeded from that favourable representation which Festus made of his cafe, and the report that Julius, the centurion, might make of what had passed on the voyage, and of Paul's behaviour whilst he had been under his care. This mild treatment of him, and his constancy, proved a furtherance to the gospel of Chrift: other bre: thren taking encouragement from thence to preach with greater boldness, Philip. i. 12. Three days after his ar-Ats rival, he called the chief of xxviii. the Jews together; shewing 17-21. them how he came a prifoner to Rome; but that he had " committed nothing against the people, or cuttoms of their fathers." They tell him, that they had heard nothing against him; but should be glad to hear of |