The Voyage to Rome
other · 60–62 · Rome
The voyage is told in the first person plural and in more nautical detail than anything else in ancient literature outside a sailing manual — the soundings, the undergirding of the hull, the fourteenth night, the beach at Malta. Then Rome, and two whole years in his own hired lodging, receiving all who came, preaching without hindrance. Acts stops there. It does not say what the trial decided or that he died, which is the strongest argument that it was written before either was known. Two years' custody at Caesarea and the appeal to Caesar came before it (Acts 25-28).
To answer the charge before Caesar rather than before the Sanhedrin.
Two years in Rome, an open door, and an ending Acts refuses to give.
People
- Luke the Evangelist participant
- Paul the Apostle suffered
- Aristarchus of Thessalonica participant
Glosses
- When the sea was open Half the journeys on this map are sea voyages, and the ancient Mediterranean was shut for a third of the year. Conybeare and Howson, who wrote their voyage chapter with a serving admiral’s papers in hand, say the sea…