Acts 28:15

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 28:15

Gratitude and courage well linked together. Paul speaks elsewhere of the severity in some sort, at all events of the stress, laid upon his spiritual sympathies at times ( 2 Corinthians 11:28-30 ). We can well understand that any severity, any pain, felt from the claim set up by such sympathies lay not in the act of sympathizing, but in the consideration of the state of things, the sins, the errors, the inconsistencies in "all the Churches," or in the members of them that called for... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Acts 28:15

And from thence - From Puteoli.When the brethren heard of us - The Christians who wore at Rome.As far as the Appii Forum - This was a city about 56 miles from Rome. The remains of an ancient city are still seen there. It is on the borders of the Pontine Marshes. The city was built on the celebrated Appian Way, or the road from Rome to Capua. The road was made by Appius Claudius, and probably the city was founded by him also. It was called the forum or market-place of Appius, because it was a... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Acts 28:13-15

Acts 28:13-15. From thence we fetched a compass Coasted round the eastern shore of Sicily; and came to Rhegium A town on the Italian shore, opposite to Messina in Sicily; and after one day Having a favourable gale, we pursued our voyage; and came to Puteoli A great seaport town of Campania, not far from Naples. Here finding Christian brethren To whom Paul was known, at least by his fame; we were desired to stay with them seven days That they might have an opportunity of hearing... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Acts 28:1-15

From Caesarea to Rome (27:1-28:15)Festus arranged for a centurion and a unit of Roman soldiers to take Paul, along with a number of other prisoners, to Rome. Two Christians also went with Paul, his loyal friend Luke and a church leader from Thessalonica named Aristarchus (27:1-2; cf. 19:29; 20:4). They began the journey on a ship that took them as far as Myra in Asia Minor. There they changed to one of the huge grain ships that sailed between Alexandria and Italy. After several days they came... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Acts 28:15

of us = the things (i.e. the news) concerning (Greek. peri) us. to meet us . Literally for (Greek. eis) meeting (Greek. apantesis. See Matthew 25:1 ) us. Appii forum . The market of Appius, a small town on the Appian Way, forty-three miles from Rome. The three taverns . About ten miles further on. taverns. Greek. taberne transliterated from Latin. taberna. Only here. thanked . Greek. eucharisteo. See Acts 27:35 . God . App-98 . courage . Greek. tharsos. Only here. Compare Acts... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Acts 28:15

And from thence the brethren, when they heard of us, came to meet us as far as The Market of Appius and The Three Taverns; whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage. And when we entered into Rome, Paul was suffered to abide by himself with the soldier that guarded him.The Market of Appius ... This place was "forty-three miles from Rome,"[21] and the travel of some of the saints in Rome such a distance to welcome the beloved apostle was a source of great joy. He had written them... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 28:15

Acts 28:15. When the brethren, &c.— That is, the Christians residing at Rome,—came to meet him, sensible of the great character of St. Paul, and the important obligations which they were under to him for his excellent Epistle to them written a few years before this. It is very remarkable, that we have no certain information by whom Christianity was first preached at Rome: probably as some inhabitants of that celebrated city were present at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost, ch. Act 2:10... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 28:15

15. And from thence, when the brethren—of Rome heard of us—by letter from Puteoli, and probably by the same conveyance which took Julius' announcement of his arrival. they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum—a town forty-one miles from Rome. and the Three Taverns—thirty miles from Rome. Thus they came to greet the apostle in two parties, one stopping short at the nearer, the other going on to the more distant place. whom when Paul saw, he thanked God—for such a welcome. How sensitive he was... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 28:1-15

4. Ministry on the way to Rome 27:1-28:15For a number of reasons Luke seems to have described this stage of the gospel expansion in detail. He evidently wanted to demonstrate God’s protection of Paul, to illustrate the increasingly Gentile nature of gospel expansion, and to document the sovereign Lord’s building of His church."Ever since the purpose of going to Rome had been planted in Paul’s mind by the Holy Spirit, his plans had been formulated with that goal in view (Acts 19:21). No warnings... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 28:11-15

The trip from Malta to Rome 28:11-15 read more

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