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Acts 27

Acts 27:1

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 27:2

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 27:3

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 27:7

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;... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 27:8

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 ]

Acts 27:9

NOW WHEN MUCH TIME WAS SPENT, AND WHEN SAILING WAS NOW DANGEROUS, BECAUSE THE FAST WAS NOW ALREADY PAST, PAUL ADMONISHED THEM... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 27:10

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 27:11

NEVERTHELESS THE CENTURION BELIEVED THE MASTER AND THE OWNER OF THE SHIP MORE THAN THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE SPOKEN BY PAUL.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 27:12

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 SOUTHWEST AND NORTHWEST.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 27:13

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 ]

Acts 27:17

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 27:20

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. 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 ]

Acts 27:21

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 27:22

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 27:24

SAYING, FEAR NOT, PAUL; THOU MUST BE BROUGHT BEFORE CAESAR; AND, LO, GOD HATH GIVEN THEE ALL THEM THAT SAIL WITH THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 27:26

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 ]

Acts 27:27

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,... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 27:28

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 ]

Acts 27:29

THEN, FEARING LEST WE SHOULD HAVE FALLEN UPON ROCKS, THEY CAST FOUR ANCHORS OUT OF THE STERN AND WISHED FOR THE DAY.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 27:30

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 ]

Acts 27:32

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 ]

Acts 27:33

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 ]

Acts 27:34

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 ]

Acts 27:35

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 27:38

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 ]

Acts 27:39

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 27:40

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 27:41

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 ]

Acts 27:43

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,... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 27:44

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. 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 ]

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