Now there were Jews living in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven.

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."

Therefore do what we tell you. We have four men who are under a vow;

"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated under Gamaliel, strictly according to the law of our fathers, being zealous for God just as you all are today.

They went to the chief priests and the elders and said, "We have bound ourselves under a solemn oath to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

We put out to sea from there and sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were against us.

When we had sailed slowly for a good many days, and with difficulty had arrived off Cnidus, since the wind did not allow us to go farther, we sailed under the lee of Crete, off Salmone.

And running under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we were scarcely able to secure the boat.