John Chrysostom

Then after so great a storm he does not speak as insultingly over them, but as wishing that at any rate he might be believed for the future. Wherefore also he alleges what had taken place for a testimony of the truth of what was about to be said by him. ...And he foretells two things; both that they must be cast upon an island, and that though the ship would be lost, those who were in it should be saved-which thing he spoke not of conjecture, but of prophecy-and that he "must be brought before Caesar."

Homily on Acts 53 ↗

Theophylact of Ohrid

"Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you." Behold, if it were not for Paul, all who were in the ship would have had to perish. Thus, what was said by Homer is false: Homer says that it is impossible to escape the mortal fate that determines the hour of a person's death together with their birth. But consider: if all were destined to perish, then, by ordinary reckoning, Paul too should have perished, having spent so many days at sea without food! …

Commentary on Acts ↗

Oecumenius

"and behold, God has granted you all." Therefore the idea that things are governed by fate or chance is shown to be false. For if they had not been saved through Paul, all would have been doomed to perish on the ship, this being a gift from God to honor the righteous man. …

Commentary on Acts ↗

Jerome

You cannot deny that the prisoner and the jailers were of unequal merit. And what were the circumstances of that shipwreck involving the apostle and the soldiers? The apostle Paul described a vision afterwards and said that those who were on the ship had been given to him by the Lord. Are we to suppose that he to whom they were given and they who were given to him were of the same merit? Ten righteous people can save a sinful city. Lot together with his daughters was delivered from the fire. …

Against Jovinianus 2.24 ↗