Acts 27:1–28

Paul Is Sent to Rome

¹When it was decided that ^awe ^bwould sail for ^cItaly, they proceeded to deliver Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan ^1dcohort named Julius.

²And embarking in an Adramyttian ship, which was about to sail to the regions along the coast of ^1aAsia, we put out to sea accompanied by ^bAristarchus, a ^cMacedonian of ^dThessalonica.

³The next day we put in at ^aSidon; and Julius ^btreated Paul with consideration and ^callowed him to go to his friends and receive care.

⁴From there we put out to sea and sailed under the shelter of ^aCyprus because ^bthe winds were contrary.

⁵When we had sailed through the sea along the coast of ^aCilicia and ^bPamphylia, we landed at Myra in Lycia.

⁶There the centurion found an ^aAlexandrian ship sailing for ^bItaly, and he put us aboard it.

⁷When we had sailed slowly for a good many days, and with difficulty had arrived off Cnidus, ^asince the wind did not permit us to go farther, we sailed under the shelter of ^bCrete, off Salmone;

⁸and with difficulty ^asailing past it we came to a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea.

⁹When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even ^athe ¹fast was already over, Paul began to admonish them,

¹⁰and said to them, “Men, I perceive that the voyage will certainly be with ^adamage and great loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.”

¹¹But the centurion was more persuaded by the ^apilot and the ¹captain of the ship than by what was being said by Paul.

¹²Because the harbor was not suitable for wintering, the majority reached a decision to put out to sea from there, if somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of ^aCrete, facing southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.

¹³¹When a moderate south wind came up, supposing that they had attained their purpose, they weighed anchor and began ^asailing along ^bCrete, close inshore.

Shipwreck

¹⁴But before very long there ^arushed down from ¹the land a violent wind, called ²Euraquilo;

¹⁵and when the ship was caught in it and could not face the wind, we gave way to it and let ourselves be driven along.

¹⁶Running under the shelter of a small island called Clauda, we were scarcely able to get the ship’s ¹boat under control.

¹⁷After they had hoisted it up, they used ¹supporting cables in undergirding the ship; and fearing that they might ^arun aground on the shallows of Syrtis, they let down the ²sea anchor and in this way let themselves be driven along.

¹⁸The next day as we were being violently storm-tossed, ¹they began to ^ajettison the cargo;

¹⁹and on the third day they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands.

²⁰Since neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small storm was assailing us, from then on all hope of our being saved was gradually abandoned.

²¹¹When they had gone a long time without food, then Paul stood up in their midst and said, “^aMen, you ought to have ²followed my advice and not to have set sail from ^bCrete and ³incurred this damage and loss.

²²“Yet now I urge you to ^akeep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

²³“For this very night ^aan angel of the God to whom I belong and ^bwhom I serve ^cstood before me,

²⁴saying, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; ^ayou must stand before Caesar; and behold, God has granted you ^ball those who are sailing with you.’

²⁵“Therefore, ^akeep up your courage, men, for I believe God that ¹it will turn out exactly as I have been told.

²⁶“But we must ^arun aground on a certain ^bisland.”

²⁷But when the fourteenth night came, as we were being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors began to surmise that ¹they were approaching some land.

²⁸They took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and a little farther on they took another sounding and found it to be fifteen fathoms.