Acts 27:24

μὴ φοβοῦ, see above, Acts 18:9. παραστῆναι, cf. Romans 14:10, the words emphatically bear out the prominence already laid upon the Apostle's witness in Rome. καὶ ἰδού, see on Acts 1:10. κεχάρισταὶ σοι : “hath granted them as a favour”; see on Acts 3:14, no doubt Paul had prayed for this, cf. especially Philemon Acts 27:22. The statement in Acts 27:24 looks back to Acts 23:11, which, as Wendt allowed (1888), is only to be rejected if one presupposes that Paul could not have confidently looked forward to a visit to Rome, or at least if we suppose that the confidence could not have been created and sustained by a heavenly vision. Wendt, however, in 1899 edition, speaks much more doubtfully as to the existence of Acts 27:21-26 as part of the original source; see also on Acts 27:21.