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

¹ When it was determined that we should sail to Italy, they delivered Paul and other prisoners to a man named Julius, a centurion of the band of Augustus. ² We entered a ship at Adramyttium and set sail. We intended to sail by the coasts of Asia. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica was with us. ³ The next day we landed at Sidon. Julius treated Paul in a kind way and gave him liberty to go to his friends to refresh himself. ⁴ When we set sail from there we sailed under the shelter of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary. ⁵ When we sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia. ⁶ There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing to Italy. He put us on it. ⁷ We sailed slowly for many days and had problems arriving off Cnidus. The wind did not allow us to hold our course. So we sailed to the downwind part of Crete near Salmone. ⁸ It was difficult to move along the coast. We came to a place called Fair Havens near the town of Lasea.

⁹ Much time had been lost and sailing was now dangerous. Because the fast was over Paul admonished them, ¹⁰ Men, I see that our voyage from here on will be dangerous. There will be great damage to the cargo and to the ship, and loss of life as well. ¹¹ But the army officer was convinced by what the captain and the owner of the ship said, and not by what Paul said. ¹² It was not a good harbor in which to spend the winter. Nearly everyone was in favor of putting out to sea and trying to reach Phoenix in order to spend the winter there. Phoenix is a harbor in Crete that faces southwest and northwest.