Note 2 at Ac 27:27: This was apparently the fourteenth night since the storm hit. In Ac 27:19, Luke mentioned that on the third day of the storm, they cast out the tackling of the ship. Paul started his fast sometime after the storm began, and he ended it before this fourteenth night.

Note 3 at Ac 27:27: The name Adria referred to the body of water between Italy and the Balkans and extended southward into the Mediterranean Sea near Greece. The name apparently came from a town in northern Italy named Adria or Atria, at the mouth of the Po river. Adria originally applied to the immediate area of water around the town but was later extended to include the area between Crete (see note 10 at Ac 27:7) and Melita (see note 1 at Ac 28:1).