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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Thrice was I beaten with rods once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck." And what has this to do with the Gospel? Because he went forth on long journeys; and those by sea. "A night and a day I have been in the deep." Some say this means out on the open sea, others, swimming upon it, which is also the truer interpretation. There is nothing wonderful, at least, about the former, nor would he have placed it as greater than his shipwrecks.
Theophylact of Ohrid
Luke did not record for us everything that Paul endured, for you see that he omitted much of what is enumerated here; because he labored in his writing not for the glorification of himself.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Secondly, he indicates the perils he endured from outsiders, namely, the Gentiles, saying: Three times I have been beaten with rods: "The magistrates tore the garments off them and gave orders to beat them with rods" (Ac. 16:22); "The tribune commanded him to be brought into the barracks, and ordered him to be examined by scourging" (Ac. 22:14). Then he discloses the perils of death he faced; and first of all those inflicted by men, saying: Once I was stoned. …
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