Acts 27:1

Finally, although under much different circumstances than he had intended, Paul was to realize his long-cherished desire to “see Rome” (Acts 19:21; see Rom. 1:15; 15:22-24). They delivered Paul. The soldiers in charge of Paul during his stay at Caesarea turned him over to an officer for the voyage to Rome. Other. Gr. heteroi, implying a class of prisoners different in some way from Paul. Julius. A characteristically Roman name. Centurion. A Roman officer commanding 100 men (see on ch. 10:1). Band. Gr. speira, “a cohort.” A Roman auxiliary cohort, such as this apparently was, consisted probably of 1,000 men (see on chs. 21:31; 23:10). Various suggestions have been made regarding the identity of this Augustan “band.” There is inscriptional evidence that a cohort named Augusta was stationed in Syria in the first century, and the cohort mentioned here may possibly be identified with it.