I Appeal To Caesar!

P. 9 Arrangements for a boat trip. “… there were no passenger vessels as such, only freighters … [the common people] camped out on deck, sometimes by the hundreds. When Paul, or anybody else, wanted to make a passage across the Aegean, Adriatic, or Eastern Mediterranean, the first task was to assemble tent, bedding, mattresses, toiletries, and a week or two’s food for everyone in the party. All this would then be lugged either to one of the dockside inns in the port of departure, or perhaps to the home of a friend who lived in the port city. The traveler, or his servant, must canvass the waterfront for ships’ captains or owners with a vessel bound for the port to which he was headed. They would be assigned a position on deck to pitch their tent at night … there were no food services, though the passengers could make use of the galleys to prepare their meals. The size of the grain vessels was prodigious … [one recorded] was 180 feet long, 40 feet wide and measured 44 feet from the deck to the bottom of the hold. It was said to be carrying … roughly one thousand tons.” The Christians, Vol. 1, pp. 178, 179. Endnotes for Chapter 11, Caesarea P. 11 Construction of Caesarea by Herod the Great. “ [This deep-water port] … permitted Herod to receive large ships from the west, enjoy the immediate support of the Roman army and begin trading with other provinces nearby. Newly developed hydraulic cement, which could set underwater, made the port possible, since it was built directly into the sea.” Gary M. Burge, A Week in the Life of a Roman Centurion , p. 65. This book is a novel worth reading that is also very entertaining. P. 14 Philip, one of the first evangelists. “Philip was one of the heroic first to admit non-Jewish believers into the fellowship of the Church. Prior to this, the Samaritans were excluded and even denied the privilege of becoming Jewish proselytes. It was Philip (not the apostles) who took the first step in (1) overcoming Jewish prejudice, and (2) the interracial expansion of the Church in accordance with the Lord’s command.” R. E. Perry, “Philip,” ZPE, p. 759.

P. 10 Extent of Philip’s ministry. Acts 8:40.

P. 13 Philip’s home in Caesarea. Craig S. Keener makes these comments: “That we find Philip here in Caesarea is not surprising …. The location was strategic and is historically plausible. Caesarea bordered Samaritan villages on the east and reportedly had a Samaritan minority; this may