Acts 27:9-12 - Paul's Advice Ignored

⁹ As a great deal of time had now passed, and navigation had become dangerous, for the autumn fast was already over, Paul began to warn them. ¹⁰ "Gentlemen," he said, "I see that this voyage is likely to end in disaster and heavy loss, not only to ship and cargo but to our own lives also." ¹¹ But the officer was more influenced by the pilot and the captain than by what Paul had to say, ¹² and as the harbor was not fit to winter in, the majority favored putting to sea again, in the hope of being able to reach and winter in Phoenix, a harbor in Crete facing west-south-west and west-north-west.