Verse Acts 27:27. _DRIVEN UP AND DOWN IN ADRIA_] Acts 27:17, Acts 27:17. _DEEMED THAT THEY DREW NEAR TO SOME COUNTRY_] They judged so, either by the _smell of land_, which tho
THE FOURTEENTH NIGHT - From the time when the tempest commenced. IN ADRIA - In the Adriatic Sea. This sea is situated between Italy and Dalmatia, now called the Adriatic Gulf. But among the ancients t...
CHAPTER 27 _ 1. From Caesarea to Fair Havens (Acts 27:1)._ 2. The Unheeded Warning. The Storm. Paul's Vision and Assurance of Safety (Acts 27:9). 3. The Shipwreck (Acts 27:27). Much has been writte...
LANDING ON MALTA.Adria was not then what is now called the Adriatic, but was a general name for the sea between Malta, Italy, Greece, and Crete. After a fortnight's tossing on this sea there were sign...
THE LAST JOURNEY BEGINS (Acts 27:1-8)...
When the fourteenth night came and we were drifting across in the Adriatic, in the middle of the night the sailors suspected that some land was approaching them. They took a sounding and found twenty...
DRIVEN UP AND DOWN. Greek. _diaphero =_ to carry hither and thither. Compare 13, 49. Mark 11:16. Then "to differ", as in the other occurances. Matthew 6:26; Matthew 10:31;...
_the fourteenth night_ i.e. from the time of their sailing away from Fair Havens. Since that time they had been constantly driven to and fro. _in Adria_ [_R. V._ IN _the sea of_Adria]. That part of t...
ST PAUL’S VOYAGE AND SHIPWRECK...
ΤΕΣΣΑΡΕΣΚΑΙΔΕΚΆΤΗ ΝΎΞ, _the fourteenth night_, i.e. from the time when they set sail from Fair Havens. Since that time they had been constantly driven to and fro. ἘΝ ΤΩ͂Ι ἈΔΡΊΑΙ, _in the sea of Adria_...
_ ENCOURAGEMENT FROM GOD ACTS 27:21-38:_ They ate nothing for many days. Afterward Paul stood and told them that they should have listened to him and not sailed._ _ He also revealed to them that God h...
ΤΕΣΣΑΡΕΣΚΑΙΔΕΚΆΤΗ (G5065) четырнадцать. Вероятно, за это время они прошли расстояние от Клавды до Мальты, около 760 км (VSSP, 126-27; BASHH, 145). ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.), см._ Acts 27:7. ΔΙΑ...
IN ADRIA,— _In the Adriatic sea._ All that part of the Mediterranean which lay south of Italy, was called by the ancients _the Adriatic sea;_ and that which is now the gulph of Venice, was the _Sinus...
DRIVEN FOR FOURTEEN DAYS BY THE WIND. Acts 27:18-27. Acts 27:18 And as we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw the freight overboard; Acts 27:19 and the third day th...
27-29. Notwithstanding the assurance of final safety, their danger, for a time, became more imminent. (27) "_And when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven along in the Adriatic Sea, about...
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; But when the fourteenth night - that is, from t...
11 Anciently the steersman, or helmsman, or pilot, was captain of the ship, but his duties in larger vessels corresponds to our navigator. The man who chartered the ship traveled as his own supercargo...
THE VOYAGE AND SHIPWRECK Acts 27:1 to Acts 28:16. The Journey to Rome. This narrative is the most detailed account of an ancient voyage which we possess, and is our principal source of knowledge of t...
THE FOURTEENTH NIGHT] viz. from their departure from Fair Havens. IN ADRIA] RV 'in the sea of Adria,' which lay between Malta, Italy, Greece and Crete....
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 27 PAUL BEGINS HIS JOURNEY TO ROME, 27:1-12 V1 It was time for us to go to Rome. They handed Paul and some other prisoners over to Captain Juli...
WHEN THE FOURTEENTH NIGHT WAS COME. — The time is apparently reckoned from their leaving the Fair Havens. (Comp. Acts 27:18; Acts 27:33.) AS WE WERE DRIVEN UP AND DOWN IN ADRIA. — — The name was used...
τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτη νύξ, _i.e._, since their departure from Fair Havens, _cf._ Acts 27:18-19, see also the reckonings of mileage in Breusing, p. 189, and Goerne, who reckons from the departure from Caud...
SAFETY DEPENDENT ON OBEDIENCE Acts 27:27 Paul presents a noble picture, standing there in the gray dawn while the heavy seas are breaking over the ship. He seems to have become by force of character...
The study of Paul's last voyage reveals some apparently contradictory facts, and yet common in the experience of the saints. On the one hand, difficulties and dangers multiplied. On the other, the div...
Troubles Seas When a soft, south wind began to blow, it was assumed they could easily reach Phoenix within a day, so they set sail. Apparently, they made good headway as they travelled along close to...
(7) But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in (e) Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed (f) that they drew near to some country; (7) We attain and come to the promis...
_In the Adria. Not in what we call the Adriatic gulf, or sea of Venice, but that which lies betwixt Peloponnesus, Sicily, and Italy. (Witham)_...
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; (28) And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: an...
The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
His innocence fully established and acknowledged by his judges, the purposes of God must still be accomplished. His appeal to Caesar must carry him to Rome, that he may bear testimony there also. In h...
BUT WHEN THE FOURTEENTH NIGHT WAS COME,.... From their setting out from the Fair Havens in Crete, or from the beginning of the storm: AS THEY WERE DRIVEN UP AND DOWN IN ADRIA: or "in the Adriatic sea...
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; Ver. 27. _In Adria_] That is, in the Adriatic Se...
_But when the fourteenth night_ Since they left Crete; _was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria_ That is, in the Adriatic sea: as the ancients called all that part of the Mediterranean sea wh...
FOURTEENTH NIGHT; after the commencement of the storm. ADRIA : in the wider sense, including not only the Adriatic gulf, but the Ionian sea south of it. DEEMED; thought, judged....
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,...
In sight of land:...
The journey to Rome has been seen as a striking picture of the history of the church publicly in its earlier years, with its rapid decline and eventual shipwreck. Paul is on board, but a prisoner, ind...
NOW WHEN THE FOURTEENTH NIGHT HAD COME, AS WE WERE DRIVEN UP AND DOWN IN THE ADRIATIC SEA, ABOUT MIDNIGHT, THE SAILORS SENSED THAT THEY WERE DRAWING NEAR SOME LAND. 1. They have been in this storm fo...
"The fourteenth night had come" That is, the fourteenth night after leaving Fair Havens. "The Adriatic Sea" The term Adriatic was. popular way of referring to the entire east central region of the Med...
21-29 They did not hearken to the apostle when he warned them of their danger; yet if they acknowledge their folly, and repent of it, he will speak comfort and relief to them when in danger. Most peo...
IN ADRIA; not in the Adriatic Bay, or Gulf of Venice, which divides Italy and Dalmatia, though that be also so called; but this name is sometimes extended to those parts of the Mediterranean Sea which...
27-29. Notwithstanding the assurance of final safety, their danger, for a time, became more imminent. (27) "_ And when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven along in the Adriatic Sea, about...
Acts 27:27 Now G1161 when G5613 fourteenth G5065 night G3571 come G1096 (G5633) we G2257 down G1308 ...
“But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven to and fro in the sea of Adria, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some country, and they sounded, and found...
A SERIES OF MARITIME STAGES AND EXAMPLES OF PROPHECY (ACTS 27:10; ACTS 27:21) ON THE WAY TO ROME (27.L-26). This series of ‘maritime stages' on a voyage parallels that in Acts 21:1. That one led up to...
_Anchoring in the Night,_ 27 - 29. Acts 27:27. WHEN THE FOURTEENTH NIGHT WAS COME. The reckoning, as above in Acts 27:12; Acts 27:19, is from their leaving Fair Havens. About a day must be. allowed, m...
AS WE WERE DRIVEN TO AND FRO (διαφερομενων ημων). Genitive absolute with present passive participle of διαφερω, old verb to bear different ways (δια=δυο, two), this way and that. Continued to be to...
Acts 27:24 I. God judged that St. Paul was concerned with the lives of the crew of the ship he sailed in, and gave these men their lives as a precious gift. Here we have what may be called the head an...
Paul had advised the captain not to set sail for a while, Acts 27:11. Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship, more than those things, which were spoken by Paul. And...
CONTENTS: Paul sent to Rome. The hurricane. God's assurance to Paul in the storm, and his safe landing. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Julius, centurion, angel, Caesar. CONCLUSION: Worldly men insist...
Acts 27:2. _Adramyttium,_ a town of Egypt, at the eastern mouth of the Nile; also a town of Mysia of the same name, where the ship touched. _One Aristarchus, a Macedonian, being with us._ The numeral...
IT WAS THE FOURTEENTH NIGHT. Since they sailed from Safe Harbors. The storm is still driving them. The area of the Mediterranean Sea to the south of Italy and Greece was once called the Adria. A look...
_But when the fourteenth night was come … about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country._ LAND AHEAD I. Men possess that which tells them there is land ahead. “The shipmen dee...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 27:27. THE FOURTEENTH NIGHT dated from the rising of the gale, which occurred soon after leaving the Fair Havens. THE SEA OF ADRIA.—See “Homiletical Analysis.” Though applied t...
EXPOSITION ACTS 27:1 For, for _into, _A.V.;_ to a centurion named Julius of the Augustan band _for unto _one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus_'_ band, _A.V. THAT WE SHOULD SAIL. Observe the "we,...
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 (Acts 27:1). So Julius is another Roman cent...
1 Kings 9:27; Acts 27:18; Acts 27:30; Jonah 1:6; Revelation 18:17...
Adria. The Adriatic Sea : embracing all that part of the Mediterranean lying south of Italy, east of Sicily, and west of Greece. Deemed [υ π ε ν ο ο υ ν]. Better, as Rev., suspected or surmised. Tha...
The fourteenth night — Since they left Crete, Acts 27:18. In the Adriatic sea — So the ancients called all that part of the Mediterranean, which lay south of Italy....
A farther account is here given both of the apostle's imminent danger and extra-ordinary deliverance; for fourteen days together the ship was continually tossed in the sea; at last the mariners cast f...