1) The natural crossing between correctly named ports (Acts 13:4-5)
2) The proper port (Perga) along the direct destination of a ship crossing from Cyprus (13:13)
3) The proper location of Lycaonia (14:6)
4) The unusual but correct declension of the name Lystra (14:6)
5) The correct language spoken in Lystra - Lycaonian (14:11)
6) Two gods known to be associated - Zeus and Hermes (14:12)
7) The proper port, Attalia, which returning travelers would use (14:25)
8) The correct order of approach to Derbe and then Lystra from the Cilician Gates (15:41, 16:1)
9) The proper form of the name Troas (16:8)10) The place of a conspicuous sailors' landmark, Samothrace (16:11)
11) The proper description of Philippi as a Roman colony (16:12)
12) The right location for the river (Gangites) near Philippi (16:13)
13) The proper association of Thyatira as a center of dyeing (16:14)
14) Correct designations for the magistrates of the colony (16:22)
15) The proper locations (Amphipolis and Apollonia) where travelers would spend successive nights on this journey (17:1)
16) The presence of a synagogue in Thessalonica (17:1)
17) The proper term ("politarchs") used of the magistrates there (17:6)
18) The correct implication that sea travel is the most convenient way of reaching Athens, with the favoring east winds of summer sailing (17:14-15)
19) The abundant presence of images in Athens (17:16)
20) The reference to a synagogue in Athens (17:17)
21) The depiction of the Athenian life of philosophical debate in the Agora (17:17)
22) The use of the correct Athenian slang word for Paul (spermologos, 17:18) as well as for the court (Areios pagos, 17:19)
23) The proper characterization of the Athenian character (17:21)
24) An altar to an "unknown god" (17:23)
25) The proper reaction of Greek philosophers, who denied the bodily resurrection (17:32)
26) Areopagites as the correct title for a member of the court (17:34)
27) A Corinthian synagogue (18:4)
28) The correct designation of Gallio as proconsul, resident in Corinth (18:12)
29) The bema (judgment seat), which overlooks Corinth's forum (18:16)
30) The name Tyrannus as attested from Ephesus in first-century inscriptions (19:9)
31) Well-known shrines and images of Artemis (19:24)
32) The well-attested "great goddess Artemis" (19:27)
33) That the Ephesian theater was the meeting place of the city (19:29)
34) The correct title grammateus for the chief executive magistrate in Ephesus (19:35)
35) The proper title of honor neokoros, authorized by the Romans (19:35)
36) The correct name to designate the goddess (19:37)
37) The proper term for those holding court (19:38)
38) Use of plural anthupatoi, perhaps a remarkable reference to the fact that two men were conjointly exercising the functions of proconsul at this time (19:38)
39) The "regular" assembly, as the precise phrase is attested elsewhere (19:39)
40) Use of precise ethnic designation, beroiaios (20:4)
41) Employment of the ethnic term Asianos (20:4)
42) The implied recognition of the strategic importance assigned to this city of Troas (20:7)
43) The danger of the coastal trip in this location (20:13)
44) The correct sequence of places (20:14-15)
45) The correct name of the city as a neuter plural (Patara) (21:1)
46) The appropriate route passing across the open sea south of Cyprus favored by persistent northwest winds (21:3)
47) The suitable distance between these cities (21:8)
48) A characteristically Jewish act of piety (21:24)
49) The Jewish law regarding Gentile use of the temple area (21:28) (Archaeological discoveries and quotations from Josephus confirm that Gentiles could be executed for entering the temple area. One inscription reads: "Let no Gentile enter within the balustrade and enclosure surrounding the sanctuary. Whoever is caught will be personally responsible for his consequent death.")
50) The permanent stationing of a Roman cohort (cliliarch) at Antonia to suppress any disturbance at festival times (21:31)
51) The flight of steps used by the guards (21:31,35)
52) The common way to obtain Roman citizenship at this time (22:28)
53) The tribune being impressed with Roman rather than Tarsian citizenship (22:29)
54) Ananias being high priest at this time (23:2)
55) Felix being governor at this time (23:34)
56) The natural stopping point on the way to Caesarea (23:31)
57) Whose jurisdiction Cilicia was in at the time (23:34)
58) The provincial penal procedure of the time (24:1-9)
59) The name Porcius Festus, which agrees precisely with that given by Josephus (24:27)
60) The right of appeal for Roman citizens (25:11)
61) The correct legal formula (25:18)
62) The characteristic form of reference to the emperor at the time (25:26)
63) The best shipping lanes at the time (27:5)
64) The common bonding of Cilicia and Pamphylia (27:4)
65) The principal port to find a ship sailing to Italy (27:5-6)
66) The slow passage to Cnidus, in the face of the typical northwest wind (27:7)
67) The right route to sail, in view of the winds (27:7)
68) The locations of Fair Havens and the neighboring site of Lasea (27:8)
69) Fair Havens as a poorly sheltered roadstead (27:12)
70) A noted tendency of a south wind in these climes to back suddenly to a violent northeaster, the well-known gregale (27:13)
71) The nature of a square-rigged ancient ship, having no option but to be driven before a gale (27:15)
72) The precise place and name of this island (27:16)
73) The appropriate maneuvers for the safety of the ship in its particular plight (27:16)
74) The fourteenth night - a remarkable calculation, based inevitably on a compounding of estimates and probabilities, confirmed in the judgment of experienced Mediterranean navigators (27:27)
75) The proper term of the time for the Adriatic (27:27)
76) The precise term (Bolisantes) for taking soundings, and the correct depth of the water near Malta (27:28)
77) A position that suits the probable line of approach of a ship released to run before an easterly wind (27:39)
78) The severe liability on guards who permitted a prisoner to escape (27:42)
79) The local people and superstitions of the day (28:4-6)
80) The proper title protos tes nesou (28:7)
81) Rhegium as a refuge to await a southerly wind to carry them through the strait (28:13)
82) Appii Forum and Tres Tabernae as correctly placed stopping places on the Appian Way (28:15)
83) Appropriate means of custody with Roman soldiers (28:16)
84) The conditions of imprisonment, living "at his own expense" (28:30-31
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