Acts 27:6

2. From Myra to Fair Havens , Acts 27:6-12 .

6. A ship of Alexandria Egypt, with her fertile Nile-valley, was at this time the wheat field of Rome. During the navigable months her ships laden with merchandises in multitudes plied their merry way to the great metropolis. Their shortest route was along the coast of Africa until they neared the Syrtes, and then a northwest line. But when the autumnal west winds begin to grow powerful, they take the Syrian coast and avail themselves of the powerful western current along the shores of Asia Minor. Dr. Hackett has shown with great clearness that the season of Paul’s arrival at Myra would be the very height of the wheat trade from Egypt, when vessels from Alexandria would be surest found.

Into Italy The direct route would have been past Rhodes, westward along south of Peloponnesus, through the straits of Messina to Puteoli.