Acts 28:14

Where we found brethren, and were entreated to tarry with them seven days, and so we came to Rome.

Ramsay was inclined not to believe this, noting that Paul was a prisoner who could not have tarried there seven days without the consent of Julius the centurion; but as Trenchard pointed out,

A delay of seven days would enable him (Julius) to equip himself and his men, after the loss of everything in the wreck, before entering Rome.[18]

Furthermore, it is not amiss to see in this seven days waiting in Puteoli an evidence, not certain of course, but probable, that Julius himself might have become a Christian. Certainly, SOMETHING induced him to honor the request of the Christians in Puteoli for Paul to remain with them over a Sunday in order to observe the Lord's supper with them.

"Thus Paul and his party would be with the Christians at the Lord's table on the Lord's Day, as they had been at Troas (Acts 20:6,7) and at Tyre (Acts 21:4)."[19] There can hardly be any doubt that all three instances of these seven-day periods of waiting were caused by the apostle Paul's arrival on a Monday, in each case, and that a week's delay was necessary to afford the opportunity of taking the Lord's supper on the Lord's Day. In this fact, such conceits as the Thursday observance of the Lord's supper, or the daily observance of it, or any departure from the apostolic custom of observing it "on a fixed day,"[20] must be rejected out of hand, as being contrary to the word of the Lord.

[18] E. H. Trenchard, op. cit., p. 338.

[19] Orrin Root, Acts (Cincinnati, Ohio: Standard Publishing Company, 1966), p. 202.

[20] Henry Bettenson, Documents of the Christian Church (New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1947), p. 6.