Verse Lens · Expanded explanation
Acts 28:11 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 11. 11And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.
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Quick Meaning
Resumes travel after three winter months on an Alexandrian Dioscuri ship.
Read It With
- Acts 28:11–28:16
Read Acts 28:11 with 28:11–28:16. In isolation, this contribution—resumes travel after three winter months on an Alexandrian Dioscuri ship—can be mistaken for the scene's whole claim, detached from its speaker or narrator, or separated from its outcome. The complete unit establishes: After winter the party sails on an Alexandrian ship, receives hospitality at Puteoli, is met by Roman believers, and Paul thanks God before entering guarded private custody.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Resumes travel after three winter months on an Alexandrian Dioscuri ship. This precise contribution belongs inside “The journey reaches Rome through hospitality” because After winter the party sails on an Alexandrian ship, receives hospitality at Puteoli, is met by Roman believers, and Paul thanks God before entering guarded private custody.
Follow the Context
- After winter the party sails on an Alexandrian ship, receives hospitality at Puteoli, is met by Roman believers, and Paul thanks God before entering guarded private custody.
- The unit distinguishes narrated event, participant speech, the narrator's framing, material uncertainty, and the ethical boundary: Arrival does not sanctify Rome, romanticize custody, or make imperial centers the measure of mission success.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
This verse does not detach its specific contribution—resumes travel after three winter months on an Alexandrian Dioscuri ship—from Acts 28:11–28:16 or negate the unit's explicit boundary: Arrival does not sanctify Rome, romanticize custody, or make imperial centers the measure of mission success.
What Remains True
Acts 28:11's particular contribution—resumes travel after three winter months on an Alexandrian Dioscuri ship—shows that faithful witness remains accountable to the verse's speaker, narrated setting, affected people, and the complete movement of Acts 28:11–28:16.
How It Can Shape Life
- Practice Acts 28:11's particular contribution—resumes travel after three winter months on an Alexandrian Dioscuri ship—through this passage-controlled response: Let friendship, welcome, and ordinary travel support endurance, without reading ship emblems or itinerary details as secret spiritual codes.
Teach It Back
Explain Acts 28:11's precise role in Acts 28:11–28:16. Distinguish narrator and speaker, include the first Jewish, Gentile, household, disabled, enslaved, imprisoned, or Roman horizon as relevant, disclose the material uncertainty, and name one conclusion this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
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Read Acts 28:11–28:16 — The journey reaches Rome through hospitalitySources used for this Verse Lens
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These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and unit coverage.
Exact location: Acts 28:11–28:16, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control, without pretending one edition is a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text, Acts 28:11-28:16
Open the Acts Greek text file ↗Lexical and grammatical evidence
STEP Bible Data
Tyndale House Cambridge
Tyndale House Cambridge, repository snapshot verified 2026
Supports: Morphology and lexical cross-check for words explicitly discussed in this unit.
Exact location: STEP Bible Data, TAGNT rows for Acts 28:11-28:16
Open source ↗open translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: Acts
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-attached textual, translation, language, geography, chronology, and historical notes actually printed for the unit.
Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Acts PDF, printed pp. 2104-2205, exact tn/tc/sn entries attached to 28:11–28:16
Open source ↗open university bible study course
Acts of the Apostles Course and Study Guides
Yale Divinity School faculty
Yale Bible Study, 2019
Supports: Introductory critical orientation to the unit's place in Luke-Acts, with contested judgments retained as interpretations.
Exact location: Yale Bible Study Acts course, course unit 'The Gospel, the Romans, the Jews,' Acts 24-28 study guide
Open source ↗open confessional commentary
The Acts of the Apostles
Alan J. Thompson
The Gospel Coalition, 2023
Supports: One complete confessional commentary reading, independently checked against the text and critical controls.
Exact location: Thompson, online Acts commentary, heading and paragraphs explicitly covering Acts 28:11–28:16
Open source ↗peer reviewed open access scholarly article
The Provincial Contexts of Paul's Imprisonments: Law Enforcement and Criminal Procedure in the Roman East
Cedric Brelaz
Journal for the Study of the New Testament 43.4, 2021
Supports: Roman law-enforcement comparison with explicit local variation and limits on reconstructing procedure.
Exact location: Brelaz, JSNT 43.4 (2021), complete open HTML, section 1 and the named provincial, custody, citizenship, hearing, or conclusion paragraphs bearing on Acts 28:11–28:16
Open source ↗