[Acts 27]

 

             {Aug. 21 - Nov. 1, 61 AD. Mediterranean Sea. The voyage to Rome.}

             ^27:1 Now as it was decided for us to sail toward Italy, and they were giving Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion, Julius by name, of the Emperor’s cohort. ^27:2 Now they stepped onto it, in an Adramyttium ship, being about to sail throughout the places along Asia; we did set-sail, also being together-with us was Aristarchus, a Macedonian, a Thessalonian. ^27:3 And we brought^* the ship into Sidon in another day and Julius treated Paul humanely and permitted^* him to obtain care, after he traveled to his friends. ^27:4 And we set-sail from there, and sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were going to be adverse. ^27:5 And then sailed through the deep-sea against Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came down to Myra, a city of Lycia. ^27:6 And the centurion found a ship of Alexandria from there sailing to Italy, and he had us step onto it. ^27:7 Now in a considerable number of days, we were voyaging slowly and happened to be by Cnidus with difficulty; the wind was not permitting us to land. We sailed under the lee of Crete against Salmone; ^27:8 and coasting-along it with difficulty, we came to a certain place being called Good Harbors; which was near the city of Lasea.

 

             ^27:9 Now after a considerable amount of time had elapsed and the voyage being dangerous already, because also the fast {i.e., Yom Kippur} was to have passed-away already, Paul was advising them, ^27:10 saying to them, Men, I view that the voyage is about to be with injury and much damage, not only of the load and of the ship, but also of our lives. ^27:11 But the centurion was being persuaded by the helmsman and by the ship-owner, rather than by the things being spoken by Paul. ^27:12 But the harbor, being^* unfit for a wintering, most of the council purposed to set-sail from there, if somehow they might be able to winter, after they arrived in Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, while looking down the northwest and down the southwest. ^27:13 Now after wind from the south blew softly, they thought to have taken-hold of their purpose, and lifted the anchor up and were coasting-along, closer to Crete. ^27:14 But after not much time, a typhoon wind, being called Euroclydon, was cast against her; ^27:15 and after the ship was seized and not being able to head-into the wind, they gave her to the wind, and we were being carried along. ^27:16 Now after we ran under the lee of a certain isle called Clauda, we were strong-enough with difficulty to become dominate over the boat; ^27:17 which they lifted it up, and were using cables, undergirding the ship, and fearing lest they might fall into the sandbars of the Syrtis, they lowered the tackling and so they were being carried along. ^27:18 But our ship was being extremely storm-tossed, the next day they were making^* a jettison of the cargo; ^27:19 and we tossed out the tackling of the ship the third day with our own hands. ^27:20 But while neither sun nor stars are appearing upon most days and not just a small storm was laying down upon us, all hope for us to be saved was furthermore being taken-away.

             ^27:21 Now being^* very much famished, then Paul, stood in the midst of them, said, O men, it was indeed essential to have obeyed me and to not set-sail away from Crete and then to gain this injury and damage. ^27:22 And hereafter, I am advising you^° to be cheerful; for^* there will be no loss of life from among you^°, however of the ship, yes. ^27:23 For^* a messenger of the God (whose I am, to whom I also am giving-divine-service) stood beside me this night, ^27:24 saying, Do not fear, Paul; it is essential for you to stand-before Caesar and behold, God has granted to you all the ones sailing with you. ^27:25 Hence, be^° cheerful, men; for^* I believe God, that it will be so according-to what is in the manner that it has been spoken to me. ^27:26 But it is essential for us to fall onto a certain island.

 

             ^27:27 Now as it became the fourteenth night, our being carried to and fro in the Adriatic Sea, in the middle of the night, the sailors were perceiving some region to be preceding them. ^27:28 And they sounded and found twenty fathoms, and after a little bit of an interval of time, they sounded again and found fifteen fathoms. ^27:29 And fearing lest we might fall into rough places, they tossed the four anchors from the stern and was praying for it to become day. ^27:30 But the sailors were seeking to flee out-of the ship and they lowered the boat into the sea in pretext, as though they are about to heave out anchors from the prow.

             ^27:31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, If these sailors do not remain in the ship, you^° are not able to be saved. ^27:32 Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat and permitted her to fall. ^27:33 Now till which time it was about to become day, Paul was encouraging them all to take some nourishment, saying, Today is the fourteenth day that you^° are expecting to arrive; you^° are continuing famished, and have taken nothing to eat for yourselves. ^27:34 Hence I am encouraging you^° to take some nourishment; for^* this is^* for your^° salvation; for^* not a hair will be falling from the head of any one of you^°. ^27:35 Now he said these things and took bread, and gave-thanks to God in the sight of all, and he broke it and began to eat. ^27:36 Now when all became cheerful, they themselves also took nourishment. ^27:37 Now we were in the ship, all the souls were two hundred and seventy-six. ^27:38 Now they were satisfied from the nourishment, and were lightening the ship, casting the grain forth into the sea.

 

             {Nov. 1, 61 AD. Shipwreck on Malta.}

             ^27:39 Now when it became day, they were not recognizing the land. But they were considering a certain bay, which has a beach into which they planned if possible to drive the ship. ^27:40 And they took-away the couplings to the anchors, and were permitting them to fall in the sea, and laxed the rudders’ couplings at the same-time. And they lifted up the foresail to the blowing wind, and were heading toward the beach. ^27:41 But we fell into a place at the intersection of two seas; they beached the cargo-ship, and indeed the prow stuck and remained unshakable, but the stern was being dissolved by the violence of the waves. {Modern location: St. Paul’s Bay, Malta.}

             ^27:42 Now the soldiers’ plan happened to be that^* they should kill the prisoners, lest some, who swam out, should flee. ^27:43 But the centurion, planning to save Paul, forbade them from their will, and commanded the ones who are able to swim, go first after you have tossed yourselves over to go-out over to the land; ^27:44 and the rest, who indeed were upon planks and who were upon any other things from the ship. And so it happened, all were to be saved upon the land.