Acts 28:12
in Acts 28Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed there three days.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And touching at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.
KJV
And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.
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This verse in Acts 28
Commentary
4 notes on this verseLanding at Syracuse - In order to go to Rome from Malta, their readiest course was to keep pretty close to the eastern coast of Sicily, in order to pass through the straits of Rhegium and get into the Tyrrhenian Sea. Syracuse is one of the most famous cities of antiquity: it is the capital of the island of Sicily, and was built about 730 years before the Christian era. It lies 72 miles S. by E. of Messina, and about 112 of Palermo. Long. 15°. 30’. W., lat. 37°. 17’. N.
This site's exposition
we departed in a ship of Alexandria
on Acts 28:11-13
After three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, another grain carrier from the same Egypt-to-Rome fleet as the wrecked vessel, and Luke records without comment that her sign was Castor and Pollux, the twin gods sailors invoked for safe passage, a detail the bench reads simply as the eyewitness naming what he saw painted on the bow rather than as any endorsement. Landing at Syracuse, then Rhegium, then Puteoli on the Bay of Naples, the route is the standard grain run any first-century reader would recognize, and the exposition lets the ordinary itinerary stand as further evidence of a log kept in real time.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And landing at Syracuse,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
And landing at Syracuse - Syracuse was the capital of the island of Sicily, on the eastern coast. It was in the direct course from Malta to Rome. It contains about 18,000 inhabitants.
The words behind it
7 Greek wordsEvery Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Greek | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| καὶ | kai | And | G2532 → | 9120 times |
| καταχθέντες | katachthentes | having put in | G2609 → | 9 times |
| εἰς | eis | at | G1519 → | 1755 times |
| Συρακούσας | surakousas | Syracuse | G4946 → | |
| ἐπεμείναμεν | epemeinamen | we stayed | G1961 → | 15 times |
| ἡμέρας | hemeras | days | G2250 → | 389 times |
| τρεῖς, | treis | three, | G5140 → | 69 times |
καὶAnd
kaiG2532 →9120 times
καταχθέντεςhaving put in
katachthentesG2609 →9 times
εἰςat
eisG1519 →1755 times
ΣυρακούσαςSyracuse
surakousasG4946 →
ἐπεμείναμενwe stayed
epemeinamenG1961 →15 times
ἡμέραςdays
hemerasG2250 →389 times
τρεῖς,three,
treisG5140 →69 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
About Acts
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); James Smith, The Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748) and William Ramsay, St. Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen.