Acts 27:1-12 - Paul And His Associates Sail For Rome

¹ When it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they proceeded to hand over Paul and a few other prisoners to the custody of Julius, a centurion of the Imperial Regiment. ² We embarked in a ship of Adramyttium which was about to sail to the ports of the province of Asia, and put to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, accompanied us. ³ The next day we touched at Sidon. There Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him leave to visit his friends and refresh himself. ⁴ Putting to sea from thence we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were against us; ⁵ and after sailing across the Cilician and Pamphylian waters, we came to Myra, in Lycia. ⁶ And there the centurion found an Alexandrian ship bound for Italy, and put us on board of her. ⁷ For many days we sailed slowly, and then arrived with difficulty over against Cnidus; from this point, as the wind did not further favor us, we ran under the lee of Crete, off Cape Salmone; ⁸ and coasting along with difficulty we reached a place called Fair Havens, not far from the town of Lasea.

⁹ By this time the season was far advanced, and sailing had become dangerous (for the Autumn Fast was past); so Paul began to warn them. ¹⁰ "Sirs," he said to them, "I perceive that the voyage will be attended with injury and serious loss, not only to the cargo and to the ship, but also to our own lives." ¹¹ But the centurion paid greater heed to the master and to the owner than to anything that was spoken by Paul; ¹² and as the harbor was ill adapted for winter quarters, the majority advised putting out to sea from thence, to see whether they could get to Phoenix and winter there, a harbor on the coast of Crete facing northeast and southeast.