Acts 27:44

And the rest, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. And so it came to pass, that they all escaped safe to land.

And on other things from the ship ... Bruce thought that these words "might conceivably mean `and some on some of the (people) from' the ship."[23]

The journey to Rome was thus interrupted by a disastrous shipwreck, Paul's fourth; but Luke would at once (in the next chapter) recount the resumption of the trip, reporting what happened during the delay on the island of Malta. In it all the "finger of God" is clearly visible.