Thematic Bible
Acts 27:1 (show verse)
And, when it was decided that we should sail to Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion, Julius by name, of the Augustan band.
Acts 27:2 (show verse)
And, embarking upon a ship of Adramyttium, about to sail along the coasts of Asia, we put to Sea, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.
Acts 27:3 (show verse)
And the next day we landed at Sidon. And Julius, treating Paul humanely, gave him permission to go to his friends to receive their attention.
Acts 27:4 (show verse)
And, thence putting out to sea, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.
Acts 27:5 (show verse)
And, sailing over the sea which is off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.
Acts 27:6 (show verse)
And there the centurion, finding an Alexandrian ship sailing to Italy, put us on board of it.
Acts 27:7 (show verse)
And, sailing slowly many days, and with difficulty having come over against Cnidus, the wind not permitting us to approach, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone;
Acts 27:8 (show verse)
and, coasting along it with difficulty, we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near which was a city??asea.
Acts 27:9 (show verse)
And much time having been spent, and sailing being already dangerous, because also the fast had already gone by, Paul was admonishing them,
Acts 27:10 (show verse)
saying, "Men! I perceive that the voyage is likely to be with violence and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.
Acts 27:11 (show verse)
But the centurion believed the pilot and the owner of the ship, more than the things spoken by Paul.
Acts 27:12 (show verse)
And, because the harbor was incommodious to winter in, the greater part advised to set sail thence, if by any means, having reached Phoenix, a harbor of Crete??ooking toward the south-west and north-west ??e might be able to winter there.
Acts 27:13 (show verse)
And, when the south wind was blowing gently, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, lifting anchor, they were coasting nearer to Crete.
Acts 27:14 (show verse)
But, not long after, there beat down upon it a tempestuous wind, which is called Euroclydon.
Acts 27:15 (show verse)
And, the ship being caught, and unable to face the wind, yielding to it, we were borne along.
Acts 27:16 (show verse)
And, running under a certain small island, called Clauda, we were with difficulty able to secure the boat;
Acts 27:17 (show verse)
which having taken up, they were using helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, lowering the sail, so they were borne along.
Acts 27:18 (show verse)
And, we being violently tempest-tossed, the next day they were making an overthrow of the cargo;
Acts 27:19 (show verse)
and, on the third day, with their own hands, they cast out the rigging of the ship.
Acts 27:20 (show verse)
And, when neither sun nor stars appeared to us for many days, and no small tempest was pressing upon us, henceforth all hope that we should be saved was being utterly taken away.
Acts 27:21 (show verse)
And, after long abstinence from food, then Paul, standing up in the midst of them, said, "Ye ought, indeed, O men, hearkening to me, not to have set sail from Crete, and to have incurred this violence and loss.
Acts 27:22 (show verse)
And, as to the present things, I exhort you to be of good cheer; for there will be no loss of soul among you, but only of the ship.
Acts 27:23 (show verse)
For there stood by me this night an angel of the God Whose I am, and Whom I serve,
Acts 27:24 (show verse)
saying, 'Fear not, Paul; it is necessary that you should stand before Caesar, and, behold, God has granted to you as a favor all those sailing with you.'
Acts 27:25 (show verse)
Wherefore, men, be of good cheer; for I believe God, that it will be even so as it has been told me.
Acts 27:26 (show verse)
But we must be cast out on a certain island."
Acts 27:27 (show verse)
And, when the fourteenth night came, as we were being driven along the Adria, about midnight the sailors were surmising that some country was approaching them;
Acts 27:28 (show verse)
and, sounding, they found twenty fathoms; and, going a little further, and again sounding, they found fifteen fathoms.
Acts 27:29 (show verse)
And, fearing lest perhaps we might wreck against rocky places, having cast four anchors out of the stern, they were praying that day would come.
Acts 27:30 (show verse)
And, when the sailors were seeking to escape out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, by pretext, as though they were about to cast anchors out of the prow,
Acts 27:31 (show verse)
Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved."
Acts 27:32 (show verse)
Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and suffered it to fall off.
Acts 27:33 (show verse)
And, when the day was about to dawn, Paul was beseeching them all to take food, saying, "To-day is the fourteenth day ye, waiting, continue fasting, having taken nothing;
Acts 27:34 (show verse)
wherefore, I beseech you to partake of food; for this makes the beginning of your deliverance; for a hair from the head of no one of you shall perish."
Acts 27:35 (show verse)
And, having said these things, and taken bread, he gave thanks to God in presence of them all; and, breaking it, he began to eat.
Acts 27:36 (show verse)
And, all having become of good cheer, they themselves also partook of food.
Acts 27:37 (show verse)
And we were in all in the ship two hundred and seventy-six souls.
Acts 27:38 (show verse)
And, having been satisfied with food, they were lightening the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.
Acts 27:39 (show verse)
And, when it was day, they were not recognizing the land; but they were observing a certain bay, having a beach, into which they purposed, if they might be able, to thrust the ship.
Acts 27:40 (show verse)
And, casting off the anchors, they let them go into the sea; at the same time loosing the bands of the rudders, and hoisting the fore-sail to the breeze, they were holding their course towards the beach.
Acts 27:41 (show verse)
But, falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the prow, sticking fast, remained immovable, but the stern was being broken to pieces by the violence of the waves.
Acts 27:42 (show verse)
Now it was the plan of the soldiers to kill the prisoners, lest any one, swimming out, might escape.
Acts 27:43 (show verse)
But the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and he commanded that those able to swim, throwing themselves first into the sea, should get out upon the land;
Acts 27:44 (show verse)
and the rest??ome, indeed, on planks, and others on some of the things from the Ship. And so it came to pass that all escaped safe to land.