Chapter 27 divides into six parts – 1-8 starting toward Rome; 9-20 a bad resolution and a worse result; 21-26 God’s revelation to Paul; 27-32 tossed about and anchored; 33-38 thankfulness, sustenance, and good cheer; 39-44 safe at last. In 27:1-28:16, Luke documents the trip of Paul from Cæsarea to Rome.
Luke provides a very detailed account of Paul’s voyage. As Gordon Hayhoe observes, “God has written all these things for our learning, and that we should profit by the mistakes of others, as well as being encouraged by the matchless grace of God which abounds over all our weakness and failure.”[1] The record of these events should be an encouragement for us to cast all our care upon the Lord, knowing that he cares.
“As we read what God has recorded for us about Paul’s voyage from the Fair Havens to Melita in the twenty-seventh of Acts, we are cheered by this beautiful account of His unfailing care for His own. He who is interested in every detail of our lives, makes even the winds and the waves obey His will.”[2]
“What does need to be seriously considered is the providence of God at work in the episode. It was God’s will for Paul to go to Rome. Neither storm, nor shipwreck, nor snakebite would prevent that.”[3]
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