Acts 27:7

AT CNIDUS. Acts 27:7 a.

Acts 27:7

And when we had sailed slowly many days, and were come with difficulty over against Cnidus, the wind not further suffering us,

Acts 27:7 a I see no point in using my words to describe this voyage from a second-hand viewpoint when there are those who have been there and have described it as they saw it. Note this word from Farrar:

The distance between the two spots is only one hundred and thirty miles and under favorable circumstances they might have got to their destination in twenty-four hours. But the baffling Etesians Periodical Mediterrean winds still continued with un-seasonable steadiness and to reach even to Cnidus occupied many weary and uncomfortable days, and when they got off at the beautiful and commodious harbor they were destined to a fresh and bitter disappointment for they could not enter it. Had they been able to do so the season was by this time so far advanced and the wind was so steadily adverse that we hardly doubt that, unless they continued their journey by land, they would either have waited there for a more favorable breeze or decided to winter in a port where there was every pleasant requisite at hand for the convenience of so large a vessel and its numerous crew. Since, however, the wind would neither suffer them to put in at Cnidus nor to continue their direct voyage, which would have passed north of Crete, the only alternative left them was to make for Cape Salmone at the eastern end of the island and there sail under its lee. (p. 564)

977.

What disappointment was evidenced at Cnidus?

978.

What determined the route of the voyage as far as Crete?

979.

Why sail under the lee of Crete?

8.

UNDER THE LEE OF CRETE. Acts 27:7 b.

Acts 27:7 b we sailed under the lee of Crete, over against Salmone;

Acts 27:7 b To get to Salmone was comparatively easy, but when they had rounded it they had the utmost difficulty in creeping along the weather shore until they came to a place called Fair Haven, a little to the east of Cape Matala, and not far from an obscure town of the name of Lasea. (ibid)