Paul Lands at Syracuse for Three Days

When the winter ends and the sea-lanes reopen, the centurion guarding Paul finds an Alexandrian grain ship that has wintered on Malta — the 'Twin Brothers' figurehead — and they set sail. The first port of call is Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily, the largest Greek city of the western Mediterranean. Paul, Luke, Aristarchus, and the prisoners spend three days there before the wind shifts. From Syracuse they tack up to Rhegium on the toe of Italy, catch a south wind, and reach Puteoli on the Bay of Naples in two days. There Christian believers welcome Paul and he stays a week before the final overland march up the Appian Way to Rome.

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