Acts 27:8

and hardly passing it "Hardly" is in the original the same word which was rendered "scarce" in the previous verse. Read (with R. V.) "with difficulty coasting along it." The verb represents the voyage as made by keeping close in to the southern shores of the island.

came unto a place i.e. on the coast of Crete. The Gk. gives (as R. V.) "a certain place."

which is called The fair havens R. V."called Fair Havens." This place, though mentioned nowhere else in literature, yet is known by the same name still. It is on the south of Crete, four or five miles east of Cape Matala, which is the largest headland on that side of the island.

Lasea This city has also been identified very recently. Its ruins were discovered in 1856, a few miles east of Fair Havens. See Smith's Voyage and Shipwreck of St Paul, App. iii. pp. 262, 263.