Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
Ver. 10. I might have a prosperous journey] This he prayed, and this he had by such a way as he little dreamed of. Little thought Paul, that when he was bound at Jerusalem, and posted from one prison to another, that God was now sending him to Rome; yet he sent him, and very safe with a great convoy. God goes often another way to work for our good than we could imagine.