Paul was traveling under the guard of some Roman soldiers, other prisoners, and travelling companions of Paul’s. I have no idea about the number but it could have been a dozen or more. This strange company travelled to the town of Puteoli and there Paul found some Christians and those Christians took in the whole crew. There is so much to this story that God hasn’t revealed to us, but I get the feeling that Paul had earned the trust and maybe even the conviction of Julius the centurion and some of his other travelling comrades. What a wonderful example those Puteoli Christians must have been to the soldiers and prisoners. Taking in absolute strangers not for one night but they invited them for a whole week to stay. Maybe they even threw a feast. How many stories of lives changed did these non-believers hear from the people who visited with Paul? How many times did they hear the story of the love of God and the death and resurrection of Jesus? I wonder how different those prisoners where when they arrived in Rome compared to when they left the court of Festus?
It took me about 20 minutes to read this passage. I’m not sure because I kept getting interrupted.
Stuart
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