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Commentaries on Acts 28:11

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

And after three months we departed,.... From Melita; here they stayed the three winter months, which were unseasonable for navigation; but now the spring coming on, and the weather agreeable, they left the island, and sailed in a ship of Alexandria; [See comments on Acts 27:6]; which had wintered in the isle; perhaps all the said three months, for the same reason: whose sign was Castor and...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

We are the more concerned to take notice of and to improve what is here recorded concerning blessed Paul because, after the story of this chapter, we hear no more of him in the sacred history, though we have a great deal of him yet before us in his epistles. We have attended him through several chapters from one judgment-seat to another, and could at last have taken leave of him with the more...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux. And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days. And from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli: Those who have ever been there regard the spot as almost sacred where Paul set his...