Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Touching (kataxqentev). First aorist passive participle of katagw, to go down to land, just the opposite of anhxqhmen in verse Acts 28:11 from anagw, to go up to sea.
At Syracuse (eiv Surakousav). The chief city of Sicily and eighty miles from Malta. Perhaps open weather and a southerly wind helped them across. Here it was that Alcibiades wrecked the power and glory of Athens. Why the ship spent three days we do not know.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 28:12:
Acts 19:40
Acts 28:1
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