King James VersionActs27

Acts

1 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. 2 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. 3 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. 4 And when we had launched from thence, we sailed un­der Cyprus, be­cause the winds were con­trary. 5 And when we had sailed over the sea of Cili­cia and Pam­phylia, we came to Myra, a city of Ly­cia. 6 And there the cen­tu­ri­on found a ship of Alexan­dria sail­ing into Italy; and he put us there­in. 7 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; 8 And, hard­ly pass­ing it, came unto a place which is called The fair havens; nigh where­un­to was the city of Lasea. 9 Now when much time was spent, and when sail­ing was now dan­ger­ous, be­cause the fast was now al­ready past, Paul ad­mon­ished them, 10 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. 11 Nev­er­the­less the cen­tu­ri­on be­lieved the mas­ter and the own­er of the ship, more than those things which were spo­ken by Paul. 12 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 south west and north west. 13 And when the south wind blew soft­ly, sup­pos­ing that they had ob­tained their pur­pose, loos­ing thence, they sailed close by Crete. 14 But not long af­ter there arose against it a tem­pes­tu­ous wind, called Eu­ro­clydon. 15 And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive. 16 And run­ning un­der a cer­tain is­land which is called Clau­da, we had much work to come by the boat: 17 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. 18 And we be­ing ex­ceed­ing­ly tossed with a tem­pest, the next day they light­ened the ship; 19 And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tack­ling of the ship. 20 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. 21 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. 22 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. 23 For there stood by me this night the an­gel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, 24 Say­ing, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought be­fore Cae­sar: and, lo, God hath giv­en thee all them that sail with thee. 25 Where­fore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I be­lieve God, that it shall be even as it was told me. 26 How­beit we must be cast upon a cer­tain is­land. 27 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: and when they had gone a lit­tle fur­ther, they sound­ed again, and found it fif­teen fath­oms. 29 Then fear­ing lest we should have fall­en upon rocks, they cast four an­chors out of the stern, and wished for the day. 30 And as the ship­men were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, un­der colour as though they would have cast an­chors out of the fore­ship, 31 Paul said to the cen­tu­ri­on and to the sol­diers, Ex­cept these abide in the ship, ye can­not be saved. 32 Then the sol­diers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off. 33 And while the day was com­ing on, Paul be­sought them all to take meat, say­ing, This day is the four­teenth day that ye have tar­ried and con­tin­ued fast­ing, hav­ing tak­en noth­ing. 34 Where­fore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you. 35 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. 36 Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat. 37 And we were in all in the ship two hun­dred three­score and six­teen souls. 38 And when they had eat­en enough, they light­ened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea. 39 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. 40 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. 41 And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and re­mained un­move­able, but the hin­der part was bro­ken with the vi­o­lence of the waves. 42 And the sol­diers' coun­sel was to kill the pris­on­ers, lest any of them should swim out, and es­cape. 43 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: 44 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.