Nevertheless the centurion believed the master. — Better, the pilot. The word is the same as that translated “ship-master,” in Revelation 18:17. The advice was, we may believe, determined by the fact that there was a better harbour but a few miles further on the coast. Could they not press on thither and be safe for the winter? It was natural that the centurion should trust to them as experts rather than to the enthusiastic Rabbi whom he had in charge as prisoner.
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Acts 27:11
11 Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship, more than those things which were spoken by Paul.