27Acts 27

CHAP. XXVII. / 1 Paul shipping toward Rome, 10 foretelleth of the danger of the voyage, 11 but is not beleeued. 14 They are tossed to and fro with tempest, 41 and suffer shipwracke, 22 34. 44 yet all

1And when it was determined, that wee should saile into Italy, they deliuered Paul, & certaine other prisoners, vnto one named Iulius, a centurion of Augustus band.Select Acts 27:1

2And entring into a ship of Adramyttium, wee lanched, meaning to saile by the coasts of Asia, one Aristarchus a Macedonian, of Thessalonica, beeing with vs.Select Acts 27:2

3And the next day wee touched at Sidon: And Iulius courteously entreated Paul, and gaue him libertie to goe vnto his friends to refresh himselfe.Select Acts 27:3

4And when we had lanched from thence, we sailed vnder Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.Select Acts 27:4

5And when we had sailed ouer the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, wee came to Myra a citie of Lysia.Select Acts 27:5

6And there the Centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy, and he put vs therein.Select Acts 27:6

7And when wee had sailed slowly many dayes, and scarse were come ouer against Gnidus, the wind not suffering vs, wee sailed vnder Creete, ouer against Salmone,Select Acts 27:7

8And hardly passing it, came vnto a place which is called the Faire hauens, nigh whereunto was the citie of Lasea.Select Acts 27:8

9Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the Fast was now alreadie past, Paul admonished them,Select Acts 27:9

10And said vnto them, Sirs, I perceiue that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not onely of the lading & ship, but also of our liues.Select Acts 27:10

11Neuerthelesse, the Centurion beleeued the master and the owner of the shippe, more then those things which were spoken by Paul.Select Acts 27:11

12And because the hauen was not commodious to winter in, the more part aduised to depart thence also, if by any meanes they might attaine to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an hauen of Creete, and lieth toward the Southwest, and Northwest.Select Acts 27:12

13And when the South wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Creete.Select Acts 27:13

14But not long after, there arose against it a tempestuous winde, called Euroclydon.Select Acts 27:14

15And when the ship was caught, and could not beare vp into the winde, we let her driue.Select Acts 27:15

16And running vnder a certaine yland, which is called Clauda, wee had much worke to come by the boate:Select Acts 27:16

17Which when they had taken vp, they vsed helps, vnder-girding the ship; and fearing lest they should fall into the quicke-sands, strake saile, and so were driuen.Select Acts 27:17

18And being exceedingly tossed with a tempest the next day, they lightened the ship:Select Acts 27:18

19And the third day we cast out with our owne handes the tackling of the shippe.Select Acts 27:19

20And when neither Sunne nor starres in many dayes appeared, and no small tempest lay on vs; all hope that wee should be saued, was then taken away.Select Acts 27:20

21But after long abstinence, Paul stood foorth in the middes of them, and said, Sirs, yee should haue hearkened vnto mee, and not haue loosed from Creete, and to haue gained this harme and losse.Select Acts 27:21

22And now I exhort you to be of good cheere: for there shall be no losse of any mans life among you, but of the shippe.Select Acts 27:22

23For there stood by me this night the Angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serue,Select Acts 27:23

24Saying, Feare not Paul, thou must be brought before Cesar, and loe, God hath giuen thee all them that saile with thee.Select Acts 27:24

25Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheere: for I beleeue God, that it shall be euen as it was tolde me.Select Acts 27:25

26Howbeit, we must be cast vpon a certaine Iland.Select Acts 27:26

27But when the fourteenth night was come, as wee were driuen vp and downe in Adria about midnight, the shipmen deemed that they drew neere to some countrey:Select Acts 27:27

28And sounded, and found it twentie fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded againe, and found it fifteene fathoms.Select Acts 27:28

29Then fearing lest we should haue fallen vpon rockes, they cast foure ancres out of the sterne, and wished for the day.Select Acts 27:29

30And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let downe the boat into the sea, vnder colour as though they would haue cast ancres out of the fore-ship,Select Acts 27:30

31Paul said to the Centurion, and to the souldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saued.Select Acts 27:31

32Then the souldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.Select Acts 27:32

33And while the day was comming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye haue taried, and continued fasting, hauing taken nothing.Select Acts 27:33

34Wherefore, I pray you to take some meat, for this is for your health: for there shall not an haire fall from the head of any of you.Select Acts 27:34

35And when hee had thus spoken, hee tooke bread, and gaue thankes to God in presence of them all, and when he had broken it, he began to eate.Select Acts 27:35

36Then were they all of good cheere, and they also tooke some meat.Select Acts 27:36

37And we were in all, in the ship, two hundred, threescore and sixteene soules.Select Acts 27:37

38And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.Select Acts 27:38

39And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discouered a certaine creek, with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.Select Acts 27:39

40And when they had taken vp the ankers, they committed themselues vnto the sea, & loosed the rudder bands, and hoised vp the maine saile to the winde, and made toward shore.Select Acts 27:40

41And falling into a place where two seas met, they ranne the shippe a ground, and the forepart stucke fast, and remained vnmoueable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waues.Select Acts 27:41

42And the souldiers counsel was to kil the prisoners, lest any of them should swimme out, and escape.Select Acts 27:42

43But the Centurion, willing to saue Paul, kept them from their purpose, and commanded that they which could swimme, should cast themselues first into the sea, and get to land:Select Acts 27:43

44And the rest, some on boords, and some on broken pieces of the ship: and so it came to passe that they escaped all safe to land.Select Acts 27:44