3. next day we touched at Sidon—To reach this ancient and celebrated Mediterranean port, about seventy miles north from Cæsarea, in one day, they must have had a fair wind.
Julius courteously—(See on Ac 27:1).
gave him liberty to go to his friends—no doubt disciples, gained, it would seem, by degrees, all along the Phœnician coast since the first preaching there (see on Ac 11:19 and Ac 21:4).
to refresh himself—which after his long confinement would not be unnecessary. Such small personal details are in this case extremely interesting.