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c. AD 59-60 · Acts 27 - 28

The voyage to Rome

A prisoner's passage, a winter storm and a shipwreck

SINAIGOSHENNEGEVJUDEASAMARIAGALILEEPEREADECAPOLISMOABEDOMAMMONGILEADBASHANPHOENICIASYRIAASIA MINORGREECEITALYCYPRUSCRETEThe Great Sea (Mediterranean)Aegean SeaBlack SeaGulf of AqabaGulf of SuezAdriatic SeaNileEuphratesTigrisJordanSea of GalileeDead Sea1Caesarea Maritima2Sidon3Myra4Cnidus5Fair Havens6Malta7Syracuse8Rhegium9Puteoli10RomeN200 km

10 stops · roughly 2,976 km end to end

Click any stop to see a photograph of the site as it stands today.

Stop by stop

  1. 1

    Caesarea Maritima

    Acts 27:1

    Sailing under guard.

  2. 2

    Sidon

    Acts 27:3
    126 km from Caesarea Maritima

    Allowed ashore to friends.

  3. 3

    Myra

    Acts 27:5-6
    576 km from Sidon

    Transferred to an Alexandrian grain ship.

  4. 4

    Cnidus

    Acts 27:7
    238 km from Myra

    Beating against the wind.

  5. 5

    Fair Havens

    Acts 27:8
    297 km from Cnidus

    Sheltering on the south coast of Crete.

  6. 6

    Malta

    Acts 27:27 - 28:1
    957 km from Fair Havens

    Driven fourteen days and wrecked on the island.

  7. 7

    Syracuse

    Acts 28:12
    152 km from Malta

    Three days after the winter.

  8. 8

    Rhegium

    Acts 28:13
    120 km from Syracuse

    Waiting for a south wind.

  9. 9

    Puteoli

    Acts 28:13
    329 km from Rhegium

    Landing in Italy.

  10. 10

    Rome

    Acts 28:16-31
    181 km from Puteoli

    Two years under house arrest.

What the record fixes

Acts 27 records soundings, sail handling and a north-easter in terms that match Roman-era sailing practice and the grain-ship route. Wreck material and anchors of the period have been recovered off Malta, though no wreck is identified as this one.