27:1 And when it was decided that we would sail for · Italy, they delivered · Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion, named Julius, of the Augustan Cohort.
27:2 And embarking on a ship from Adramyttium, which was about to sail to · ports along the coast of · Asia, we put to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica was with us.
27:3 The next day we put in at Sidon; and Julius treated Paul kindly · · and allowed him to go to his friends and be cared for.
27:4 And putting out to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of · Cyprus, because · the winds were against us.
27:5 And when we had sailed across the open sea · along the coast of · Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia.
27:6 There the centurion found a ship from Alexandria sailing for · Italy and put us on board it.
27:7 We sailed slowly for a number of · days and arrived with difficulty off · Cnidus, and as the wind did not allow us to go farther, we sailed under the lee of · Crete off Salmone.
27:8 Sailing past it with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near to which was the city Lasea.
27:9 Since considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous because · · the fast had already gone by, Paul advised · them,
27:10 saying, “Gentlemen, I perceive that the voyage that is about to take place will involve injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.”
27:11 But the centurion was more convinced by the captain and the ship’s owner than by what Paul was saying.
27:12 And since the harbor was unsuitable to winter in, the majority made a decision to put out to sea from there, if somehow they might be able to reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, facing both southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.
27:13 Now when the south wind blew gently, thinking that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along · Crete, close to the shore.
27:14 But soon a violent wind, called the northeaster, rushed down from Crete. ·
27:15 And when the ship was caught by it and could not head into the wind, we gave way and allowed ourselves to be driven along.
27:16 · Running under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we were able with difficulty to get the dinghy under control.
27:17 After hoisting it up, they passed cables under the ship to hold it together. Then, fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor, and thus they let the ship be driven along.
27:18 · Since we were being pounded so violently by the storm, the next day they began to throw cargo overboard;
27:19 and on the third day they threw the ship’s tackle · overboard with their own hands.
27:20 When neither · sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small storm continued to rage, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.
27:21 Since they had long been without food, Paul stood up · in their midst and said, “Men, you should have followed my advice and not set sail from · Crete and incurred · this injury and · loss.
27:22 And · now I advise you to be of good courage; for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.
27:23 For there stood by me this · night an angel of the God whose I am and whom I serve,
27:24 saying, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar; and behold, God has granted you as a gift · all those who sail with you.’
27:25 So be of good courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will be so, just as it has been told me.
27:27 And when it was the fourteenth night, as we were being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight · the sailors suspected that they were nearing land.
27:28 So they took soundings and found twenty fathoms; and after a short distance they took soundings again and found fifteen fathoms.
27:29 Fearing that we might run aground on the rocky coast, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come.
27:30 But when the sailors tried to escape from the ship and had lowered the dinghy into the sea pretending they intended to let down anchors from the bow,
27:31 Paul said · to the centurion and the soldiers, “If these men do not remain in the ship, you cannot be saved.”
27:32 Then the soldiers cut the ropes from the dinghy and let it drift away.
27:33 As · day was about to dawn, Paul urged · them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have continued in suspense and been without food, having taken nothing.
27:34 Therefore I urge you to take some food; for this is for · your survival, for not a hair will perish from the head of any of you.”
27:35 And when he had said these things, he took bread, and giving thanks to God before them all, · he broke it and began to eat.
27:36 So everyone was encouraged and they themselves took food.
27:37 We were · in · all two hundred seventy-six persons on the ship.
27:38 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing the wheat out into the sea.
27:39 Now when it was day, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay that had a beach, on which they planned, if possible, to run the ship ashore.
27:40 So they cut loose the anchors, left them in the sea, and at the same time untied the ropes that held the rudders. Then hoisting the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.
27:41 But caught in some crosscurrents, they ran the ship aground; · the bow stuck and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up by the force of the waves.
27:42 It was the plan of the · soldiers to kill the prisoners, so none could escape by swimming away.
27:43 But the centurion, wanting to spare · Paul’s life, prevented them from · carrying out their plan; and he ordered those who could swim to throw themselves overboard first and make for the land,
27:44 and the rest, some on planks and others on pieces · of the ship. And so it came about that all escaped safely to the land.
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