Acts 27:1-8
THE VOYAGE FROM CAESAREA TO MELITA. From Caesarea to Fair Havens:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE VOYAGE FROM CAESAREA TO MELITA. From Caesarea to Fair Havens:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN IT WAS DETERMINED THAT WE SHOULD SAIL INTO ITALY, THEY DELIVERED PAUL AND CERTAIN OTHER PRISONERS UNTO ONE NAMED JULIUS, A CENTURION OF AUGUSTUS' BAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ENTERING INTO A SHIP OF ADRAMYTTIUM, WE LAUNCHED, MEANING TO SAIL BY THE COASTS OF ASIA, ONE ARISTARCHUS, A MACEDONIAN OF THESSALONICA, BEING WITH US.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE NEXT DAY WE TOUCHED AT SIDON. AND JULIUS COURTEOUSLY ENTREATED PAUL, AND GAVE HIM LIBERTY TO GO UNTO HIS FRIENDS TO REFRESH HIMSELF.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN WE HAD LAUNCHED FROM THENCE, WE SAILED UNDER CYPRUS, BECAUSE THE WINDS WERE CONTRARY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN WE HAD SAILED OVER THESE A OF CILICIA AND PAMPHYLIA, WE CAME TO MYRA. A CITY OF LYCIA.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE THE CENTURION FOUND A SHIP OF ALEXANDRIA SAILING INTO ITALY; AND HE PUT US THEREIN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN WE HAD SAILED SLOWLY MANY DAYS, AND SCARCE WERE COME OVER AGAINST CNIDUS, THE WIND NOT SUFFERING US, WE SAILED UNDER CRETE, OVER AGAINST SALMONE;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND, HARDLY PASSING IT, CAME UNTO A PLACE WHICH IS CALLED THE FAIR HAVENS; NIGH WHEREUNTO WAS THE CITY OF LASEA. The hearing before Agrippa, which gave him as well as Festus the conviction that. Paul was innocent of any offense against the empire, had one good result: it ended the uncertainty of the... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW WHEN MUCH TIME WAS SPENT, AND WHEN SAILING WAS NOW DANGEROUS, BECAUSE THE FAST WAS NOW ALREADY PAST, PAUL ADMONISHED THEM... [ Continue Reading ]
The start from Fair Havens:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SAID UNTO THEM, SIRS, I PERCEIVE THAT THIS VOYAGE WILL BE WITH HURT AND MUCH DAMAGE, NOT ONLY OF THE LADING AND SHIP, BUT ALSO OF OUR LIVES.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEVERTHELESS THE CENTURION BELIEVED THE MASTER AND THE OWNER OF THE SHIP MORE THAN THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE SPOKEN BY PAUL.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BECAUSE THE HAVEN WAS NOT COMMODIOUS TO WINTER IN, THE MORE PART ADVISED TO DEPART THENCE ALSO, IF BY ANY MEANS THEY MIGHT ATTAIN TO PHENICE, AND THERE TO WINTER, WHICH IS AN HAVEN OF CRETE, AND LIETH TOWARD THE SOUTHWEST AND NORTHWEST.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE SOUTH WIND BLEW SOFTLY, SUPPOSING THAT THEY HAD OBTAINED THEIR PURPOSE, LOOSING THENCE, THEY SAILED CLOSE BY CRETE. Due to the adverse winds and the extremely slow progress, the season was now very far advanced, and navigation had become perilous. The great fast day of the Jewish calend... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT NOT LONG AFTER THERE AROSE AGAINST IT A TEMPESTUOUS WIND, CALLED EUROCLYDON.... [ Continue Reading ]
The hurricane:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE SHIP WAS CAUGHT, AND COULD NOT BEAR UP INTO THE WIND, WE LET HER DRIVE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND RUNNING UNDER A CERTAIN ISLAND WHICH IS CALLED CLAUDA, WE HAD MUCH WORK TO COME BY THE BOAT;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH WHEN THEY HAD TAKEN UP, THEY USED HELPS, UNDERGIRDING THE SHIP; AND, FEARING LEST THEY SHOULD FALL INTO THE QUICKSANDS, STRAKE SAIL, AND SO WERE DRIVEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WE, BEING EXCEEDINGLY TOSSED WITH A TEMPEST, THE NEXT DAY THEY LIGHTENED THE SHIP;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE THIRD DAY WE CAST OUT WITH OUR OWN HANDS THE TACKLING OF THE SHIP.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN NEITHER SUN NOR STARS IN MANY DAYS APPEARED, AND NO SMALL TEMPEST LAY ON US, ALL HOPE THAT WE SHOULD BE SAVED WAS THEN TAKEN AWAY. The gentle breeze seems to have been only a lull while the storm shifted, for not long after they had started from Fair Havens, and probably before they had rou... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT AFTER LONG ABSTINENCE PAUL STOOD FORTH IN THE MIDST OF THEM AND SAID, SIRS, YE SHOULD HAVE HEARKENED UNTO ME, AND NOT HAVE LOOSED FROM CRETE, AND TO HAVE GAINED THIS HARM AND LOSS.... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul comforts crew and passengers:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND NOW I EXHORT YOU TO BE OF GOOD CHEER; FOR THERE SHALL BE NO LOSS OF ANY MAN'S LIFE AMONG YOU, BUT OF THE SHIP.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THERE STOOD BY ME THIS NIGHT THE ANGEL OF GOD, WHOSE I AM AND WHOM I SERVE,... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING, FEAR NOT, PAUL; THOU MUST BE BROUGHT BEFORE CAESAR; AND, LO, GOD HATH GIVEN THEE ALL THEM THAT SAIL WITH THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE, SIRS, BE OF GOOD CHEER; FOR I BELIEVE GOD THAT IT SHALL BE EVEN AS IT WAS TOLD ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOWBEIT, WE MUST BE CAST UPON A CERTAIN ISLAND. For fourteen days and fourteen nights the vessel was tossed by the waves of the Mediterranean like a nutshell, during which time crew and passengers were in too great distress to think of eating; they abstained entirely. But when Paul, on one of these... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN THE FOURTEENTH NIGHT WAS COME, AS WE WERE DRIVEN UP AND DOWN IN ADRIA, ABOUT MIDNIGHT THE SHIPMEN DEEMED THAT THEY DREW NEAR TO SOME COUNTRY,... [ Continue Reading ]
In sight of land:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SOUNDED, AND FOUND IT TWENTY FATHOMS; AND WHEN THEY HAD GONE A LITTLE FURTHER, THEY SOUNDED AGAIN, AND FOUND IT FIFTEEN FATHOMS.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN, FEARING LEST WE SHOULD HAVE FALLEN UPON ROCKS, THEY CAST FOUR ANCHORS OUT OF THE STERN AND WISHED FOR THE DAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS THE SHIPMEN WERE ABOUT TO FLEE OUT OF THE SHIP, WHEN THEY HAD LET DOWN THE BOAT INTO THE SEA, UNDER COLOR AS THOUGH THEY WOULD HAVE CAST ANCHORS OUT OF THE FORESHIP,... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL SAID TO THE CENTURION AND TO THE SOLDIERS, EXCEPT THESE ABIDE IN THE SHIP, YE CANNOT BE SAVED.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN THE SOLDIERS CUT OFF THE ROPES OF THE BOAT, AND LET HER FALL OFF. About this time the ship, a mere plaything of the waves, was being tossed about in the Adria, in the Ionian Sea between Sicily and Greece, being driven in a uniform, continuous motion toward the west, and the fourteenth night had... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul again encourages his shipmates:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHILE THE DAY WAS COMING ON, PAUL BESOUGHT THEM ALL TO TAKE ME AT, SAYING, THIS DAY IS THE FOURTEENTH DAY THAT YE HAVE TARRIED AND CONTINUED FASTING, HAVING TAKEN NOTHING.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE I PRAY YOU TO TAKE SOME ME AT, FOR THIS IS FOR YOUR HEALTH; FOR THERE SHALL NOT AN HAIR FALL FROM THE HEAD OF ANY OF YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE HAD THUS SPOKEN, HE TOOK BREAD, AND GAVE THANKS TO GOD IN PRESENCE OF THEM ALL; AND WHEN HE HAD BROKEN IT, HE BEGAN TO EAT.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN WERE THEY ALL OF GOOD CHEER, AND THEY ALSO TOOK SOME MEAT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WE WERE IN ALL IN THE SHIP TWO HUNDRED THREE SCORE AND SIXTEEN SOULS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HAD EATEN ENOUGH, THEY LIGHTENED THE SHIP, AND CAST OUT THE WHEAT INTO THE SEA. That the events of the last two weeks, the terrible buffeting by wind and waves, the constant danger of death, the absence of sun and stars, had had a demoralizing effect upon all men on board, is easily un... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN IT WAS DAY, THEY KNEW NOT THE LAND; BUT THEY DISCOVERED A CERTAIN CREEK WITH A SHORE, INTO THE WHICH THEY WERE MINDED, IF IT WERE POSSIBLE, TO THRUST IN THE SHIP.... [ Continue Reading ]
The escape from the ship:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HAD TAKEN UP THE ANCHORS; THEY COMMITTED THEMSELVES UNTO THE SEA, AND LOOSED THE RUDDER-BANDS, AND HOISED UP THE MAINSAIL TO THE WIND, AND MADE TOWARD SHORE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND FALLING INTO A PLACE WHERE TWO SEAS MET, THEY RAN THE SHIP AGROUND; AND THE FOREPART STUCK FAST, AND REMAINED UNMOVABLE, BUT THE HINDER PART WAS BROKEN WITH THE VIOLENCE OF THE WAVES.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SOLDIERS' COUNSEL WAS TO KILL THE PRISONERS, LEST ANY OF THEM SHOULD SWIM OUT AND ESCAPE.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THE CENTURION, WILLING TO SAVE PAUL, KEPT THEM FROM THEIR PURPOSE, AND COMMANDED THAT THEY WHICH COULD SWIM SHOULD CAST THEMSELVES FIRST INTO THE SEA, AND GET TO LAND,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE REST, SOME ON BOARDS, AND SOME ON BROKEN PIECES OF THE SHIP. AND SO IT CAME TO PASS THAT THEY ESCAPED ALL SAFE TO LAND. When it was day, when it became light enough to distinguish objects plainly, the sailors tried to get their bearings, but they did not recognize the land. They may have bee... [ Continue Reading ]