ABSTRACT
As described in the Book of Acts the missionary journeys of Gallio Paul follow a well-marked geographical route, and, in addition to the Jews to whom he regularly spoke first, they brought him into contact with the other major peoples of the time. En route to Jerusalem there were intimations of trouble ahead, and in Jerusalem, the events of Ac 21:17-23:35 unfolded, which brought Paul into custody in Caesarea. According to Ac 23:35 Paul was guarded in Caesarea in “Herods praetorium,” and this must have been Herod’s palace, which had been made the headquarters of the Roman procurator of Judea. According to Ac 28:7-9 “the first” or chief man of the island was Publius, and he had lands in the neighborhood of the place of the shipwreck, received Paul and his companions hospitably, and entertained “us” for three days. Paul healed Publius’s father of fever and dysentery, and many other people of the island were also cured.
