Charles Ellicott Commentary Acts 28:12

"And touching at Syracuse, we tarried there three days." — Acts 28:12 (ASV)

And landing at Syracuse . . .—The city, famous for the memorable siege during the Peloponnesian War, and at all times taking its place among the most flourishing towns of Sicily, was about eighty or a hundred miles from Malta, and could accordingly be reached in twenty-four to thirty-six hours. Ships bound from Alexandria to Italy commonly stopped there. The stay of three days was probably caused by their waiting for a favourable wind. The fact stated in the next verse implies that it was more or less against them.