Acts 27:1

Now there was a man at Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian cohort,

And when he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to proclaim the gospel to them.

And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, and his wife Priscilla, who recently came from Italy because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,

Now when it was decided that we would sail for Italy, they proceeded to deliver Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan cohort named Julius.

There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy, and he put us aboard it.

And when they had been brought safely through to shore, then we learned that the island was called Malta.

Paul Is Sent to Rome