Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Sailing for Italy (pleon eiv thn Italian). This was the opportunity for which Lysias had been looking. So he put (enebibasen, first aorist active of embibazw, to cause to enter. Cf. epibantev in verse Acts 27:2) prisoners and soldiers on board. This was a ship of Alexandria bound for Rome, a grain ship (Acts 27:38) out of its course because of the wind. Such grain ships usually carried passengers.
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