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Acts 27 📜 📕 ↷
Paul Sails for Rome
1 AND after it was decreed that he should sail into Italy, and that Paul with other prisoners should be delivered to a Centurion named Julius, of the band Augusta,📜💬📚
2 we going up into a ship of Adrumetum, beginning to sail about the places of Asia, loosed from the land, Aristarchus the Macedonian of Thessalonica continuing with us.📜💬📚
3 And the third day following we came to Sidon. And Julius entreating Paul courteously, permitted him to go to his friends, and to take care of himself.📜💬📚
4 And when we had loosed thence we sailed under Cypres: because the winds were contrary.📜💬📚
5 And sailing the sea of Cilicia and Pamphilia, we came to Lystra, which is in Lycia:📜💬📚
6 and there the Centurion finding a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy, removed us into it.📜💬📚
7 And whereas many days we sailed slowly, and were scarce come over against Gnidus, the wind hindering us, we sailed near Crete by Salmone:📜💬📚
8 and with much ado sailing by it, we came into a certain place that is called Good-havens, nigh to the which was a city Thalassa.📜💬📚
9 And when much time was spent, and whereas now it was not safe sailing, because the fast now was past, Paul comforted them,📜💬📚
10 saying to them: Ye men, I see that the sailing beginneth to be with hurt and much damage, not only of the lading and the ship, but also of our lives.📜💬📚
11 But the Centurion believed the governor and master of the ship, more than those things which were said of Paul.📜💬📚
12 And whereas it was not a commodious haven to winter in, very many taking counsel appointed to sail thence, if by any means they might coming to Phoenice, winter there, a haven of Crete looking toward the Afrike and the Chore.📜💬📚
Storm at Sea
13 And the south-wind blowing, they thinking that they had obtained their purpose, when they had parted from Asson, sailed along by Crete.📜💬📚
14 But not long after, a tempestuous wind that is called Euro-aquilo, drove against it.📜💬📚
15 And when the ship was caught and could not make way against the wind, giving up the ship to the winds, we were driven,📜💬📚
16 And running upon a certain Island, that is called Cauda, we could scarce get the cock-boat.📜💬📚
17 Which being taken up, they used helps, girding the ship, and fearing lest they should fall into the Syrte, letting down the vessel, so were they carried.📜💬📚
18 And when we were mightily tossed with the tempest, the next day they cast forth.📜💬📚
19 And the third day with their own hands they threw forth the tacklings of the ship.📜💬📚
20 And neither sun, nor stars appearing for many days, and no small storm being toward, all hope was now taken away of our saving.📜💬📚
21 And when there had been long fasting, then Paul standing in the midst of them, said: You should indeed, O ye men, have heard me, and not have parted from Crete, & have gained this hurt and loss.📜💬📚
22 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer. For there shall be no loss of any soul among you, but of the ship.📜💬📚
23 For an Angel of the God whose I am, and whom I serve, stood by me this night,📜💬📚
24 saying: Fear not Paul, thou must appear before Caesar: and behold God hath given thee all that sail with thee.📜💬📚
25 For the which cause be of good cheer ye men: for I believe God, that it shall so be, as it hath been said to me.📜💬📚
26 And we must come unto a certain island.📜💬📚
Shipwreck
27 But after the fourteenth night was come on us, as we were sailing in Adria about mid-night, the ship-men deemed that there appeared some country to them.📜💬📚
28 Who also sounding, found twenty fathoms: and being parted a little from thence, they found fifteen fathoms.📜💬📚
29 And fearing lest we should fall into rough places, casting out of the stern four anchors, they wished that day were come.📜💬📚
30 But as the ship-men sought to fly out of the ship, having let down the cock-boat into the sea, pretending as if they were about to cast out anchors out of the fore-part of the ship,📜💬📚
31 Paul said to the Centurion and to the soldiers: unless these tarry in the ship you can not be saved.📜💬📚
32 Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the cock-boat; and suffered it to fall away.📜💬📚
33 And when it began to be light, Paul desired all to take meat, saying: This day is the fourteenth day that you expect and remain fasting, taking nothing.📜💬📚
34 For the which cause I desire you to take meat for your health sake: for there shall not an hair of the head perish of any of you.📜💬📚
35 And when he had said these things, taking bread he gave thanks to God in the sight of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat.📜💬📚
36 And being all made of better cheer, they also took meat.📜💬📚
37 And we were in all in the ship, souls two hundred seventy six.📜💬📚
38 And being filled with meat, they lighted the ship, casting the wheat into the sea.📜💬📚
39 And when day was come, they knew not the land: but they spied a certain creek that had a shore, into the which they minded, if they could, to cast aland the ship.📜💬📚
40 And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves to the sea, loosing withal the rudder bands: and hoisting up the maine sail according as the wind blew, they went on toward the shore.📜💬📚
41 And when we were fallen into a place between two seas, they graveled the ship: and the fore-part truly sticking fast remained unmoveable: but the hinder-part was broken by the violence of the sea.📜💬📚
42 And the counsel of the soldiers was, that they should kill the prisoners: lest any swimming out, might run away.📜💬📚
43 But the Centurion willing to save Paul, forbade it to be done: & he commanded them that could swim, to cast out themselves first, and escape, and go forth to land:📜💬📚
44 and the rest, some they carried on boards, & some upon those things that were of the ship. And so it came to pass, that all the souls escaped to land.📜💬📚
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