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Act 27:1-44. The voyage to Italy - The shipwreck and safe landing at Malta.
we should sail, etc. - The “we” here reintroduces the historian as one of the company. Not that he had left the apostle from the time when he last included himself (Act 21:18), but the apostle was parted from him by his arrest and imprisonment, until now, when they met in the ship.
delivered Paul and certain other prisoners - State prisoners going to be tried at Rome; of which several instances are on record.
Julius - who treats the apostle throughout with such marked courtesy (Act 27:3, Act 27:43; Act 28:16), that it has been thought [Bengel] he was present when Paul made his defense before Agrippa (see Act 25:23), and was impressed with his lofty bearing.
a centurion of Augustus’ band - the Augustan cohort, an honorary title given to more than one legion of the Roman army, implying, perhaps, that they acted as a bodyguard to the emperor or procurator, as occasion required.