Acts 27

Sailing for Rome

1When it was decided that we were to sail to Italy, they handed over Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Imperial Regiment. # 27:1 Or Augustan Cohort,# 27:1 Ac 10:1; 16:10; 25:12,25 2When we had boarded a ship of Adramyttium, we put to sea, intending to sail to ports along the coast of Asia. Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, was with us. # 27:2 Ac 17:1; 19:29; 20:4; Col 4:10; Phm 24 3The next day we put in at Sidon, and Julius treated Paul kindly and allowed him to go to his friends to receive their care. # 27:3 Ac 24:23; 27:43; 28:16 4When we had put out to sea from there, we sailed along the northern coast # 27:4 Lit sailed under the lee, also in v. 7 of Cyprus because the winds were against us. 5After sailing through the open sea off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we reached Myra in Lycia. # 27:5 Ac 6:9; 13:13 6There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us on board. 7Sailing slowly for many days, with difficulty we arrived off Cnidus. Since the wind did not allow us to approach it, we sailed along the south side of Crete off Salmone. 8With still more difficulty we sailed along the coast and came to a place called Fair Havens near the city of Lasea.

Paul’s Advice Ignored

9By now much time had passed, and the voyage was already dangerous. Since the Day of Atonement # 27:9 Lit the Fast,# 27:9 Lv 16:29–31; 23:27–29; Nm 29:7 was already over, Paul gave his advice 10and told them, “Men, I can see that this voyage is headed toward disaster and heavy loss, not only of the cargo and the ship but also of our lives.” 11But the centurion paid attention to the captain and the owner of the ship rather than to what Paul said. # 27:10–11 Ac 27:21; Rv 18:17 12Since the harbor was unsuitable to winter in, the majority decided to set sail from there, hoping somehow to reach Phoenix, a harbor on Crete # 27:12 Ac 2:11; Ti 1:5 facing the southwest and northwest, and to winter there.

Storm-Tossed Ship

13When a gentle south wind sprang up, they thought they had achieved their purpose. They weighed anchor and sailed along the shore of Crete. 14But before long, a fierce wind called the “northeaster” rushed down from the island. 15Since the ship was caught and unable to head into the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along. 16After running under the shelter of a little island called Cauda, # 27:16 Or Clauda we were barely able to get control of the skiff. 17After hoisting it up, they used ropes and tackle and girded the ship. Fearing they would run aground on the Syrtis, they lowered the drift-anchor, and in this way they were driven along. 18Because we were being severely battered by the storm, they began to jettison the cargo the next day. # 27:18 Jnh 1:5; Ac 27:38 19On the third day, they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands. 20For many days neither sun nor stars appeared, and the severe storm kept raging. Finally all hope was fading that we would be saved.

21Since they had been without food for a long time, Paul then stood up among them and said, “You men should have followed my advice not to sail from Crete and sustain this damage and loss. 22Now I urge you to take courage, because there will be no loss of any of your lives, but only of the ship. 23For last night an angel of the God I belong to and serve stood by me # 27:23 Dn 6:16; Ac 18:9; 23:11; Rm 1:9; 2Tm 4:17 24and said, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. It is necessary for you to appear before Caesar. And indeed, God has graciously given you all those who are sailing with you.’ 25So take courage, men, because I believe God that it will be just the way it was told to me. # 27:25 Ac 27:22,36; Rm 4:20–21 26But we have to run aground on some island.” # 27:26 Ac 27:17,29; 28:1

27When the fourteenth night came, we were drifting in the Adriatic Sea, and about midnight the sailors thought they were approaching land. 28They took soundings and found it to be a hundred twenty feet # 27:28 Lit twenty fathoms deep; when they had sailed a little farther and sounded again, they found it to be ninety feet # 27:28 Lit fifteen fathoms deep. 29Then, fearing we might run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daylight to come. 30Some sailors tried to escape from the ship; they had let down the skiff into the sea, pretending that they were going to put out anchors from the bow. 31Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.” 32Then the soldiers cut the ropes holding the skiff and let it drop away.

33When it was about daylight, Paul urged them all to take food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have been waiting and going without food, having eaten nothing. 34So I urge you to take some food. For this is for your survival, since none of you will lose a hair from your head.” # 27:34 1Kg 1:52; Mt 10:30; Lk 21:18 35After he said these things and had taken some bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all of them, and after he broke it, he began to eat. # 27:35 Mt 14:19; 15:36 36They all were encouraged and took food themselves. 37In all there were 276 of us on the ship. # 27:37 Ac 2:41; 7:14; Rm 13:1; 1Pt 3:20 38When they had eaten enough, they began to lighten the ship by throwing the grain overboard into the sea.

Shipwreck

39When daylight came, they did not recognize the land but sighted a bay with a beach. They planned to run the ship ashore if they could. # 27:38–39 Ac 27:18; 28:1 40After cutting loose the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the ropes that held the rudders. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and headed for the beach. 41But they struck a sandbar and ran the ship aground. The bow jammed fast and remained immovable, while the stern began to break up by the pounding of the waves. 42The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners so that no one could swim away and escape. 43But the centurion kept them from carrying out their plan because he wanted to save Paul, and so he ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land. 44The rest were to follow, some on planks and some on debris from the ship. In this way, everyone safely reached the shore. # 27:41–44 Ac 12:19; 27:3,22; 2Co 11:25

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Gevurot Meyruach Hakodesh 27

1And when it was decided that we set sail to Italy, they were handing over both Rav Sha'ul and some other prisoners to a centurion, Julius by name, of the Imperial Cohort. 2And having embarked in an oniyah of Adramyttium about to sail to the ports along the coast of Asia, we set sail, Aristarchus a Macedonian of Thessalonika being with us. 3The next day, we put in at a harbor in Tzidon; and Julius treated Rav Sha'ul with kindness, permitting him to be cared for by his chaverim. 4And from there, having put out to sea, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus because the winds were against us. 5Then having sailed across the open sea along the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came down to Myra of Lycia. 6And there the centurion found an Alexandrian oniyah sailing to Italy and put us on board. 7But for many yamim we sailed slowly and with difficulty along the coast of Cnidus, and as the wind was not permitting us to go vaiter (farther), we sailed under the lee of Crete off Salmone. 8And with difficulty sailing past it, we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea.

9And since considerable time had been lost and it was already unsafe for a voyage, because Yom Kippur had already come and gone; therefore, Rav Sha'ul gave them this eitza (suggestion), 10Saying to them, Anashim, I see that the voyage will be hardship and much peril, not only of the cargo and the oniyah, but also of our lives. 11But the centurion was persuaded by the pilot and the owner rather than by the devarim of Rav Sha'ul. 12But the port being unfavorably situated for spending the winter, the majority decided to set sail from there, if somehow they could reach Phoenix to spend the winter. It was a harbor of Crete, facing southwest and northwest.

13And a gentle south wind began to blow, and they thought they could attain their matarah (objective), so they weighed anchor and they were sailing past Crete, close by the shore. 14After not much time a violent, typhoon force wind rushed down from Crete, the so called Euraquilo, the Northeaster. 15And the oniyah, having been caught in it, and not being able to directly face the wind, we gave way to it and were driven. 16By running under the lee of a small island called Clauda, we were able only with difficulty to get the lifeboat secured. 17After hoisting it up, they were using frapping cables, passing them underneath the oniyah; then, fearing lest on the shallows of Syrtis they might run aground, they lowered the sea anchor, and so they were being driven along. 18And we were being violently tossed by the storm, so much so that the next day they were throwing the cargo overboard. 19And on the Yom Shlishi, with their own hands, they threw out the tackle of the oniyah. 20And neither shemesh (sun) nor kochavim appeared for many yamim and no small tempest assailed us. Lemaskana (finally) all tikvateinu for yeshu'ah was being abandoned.

21And after having much loss of appetite, then Rav Sha'ul stood up in the midst of them, and said, Anashim, you should have obeyed me and not put out to sea from Crete and thereby spared yourselves this hardship and this loss. 22And now I advise you to have ometz lev (courage), for there will be no loss of life among you, except the oniyah. 23For a malach Hashem stood by me during lailah hazeh, of the G-d whom I serve, 24Saying, Do not be afraid, Sha'ul. It is necessary for you to stand before Caesar; and, hinei, Hashem has given to you all the ones sailing with you. 25Therefore have lev same'ach, Anashim. For I have emunah in Hashem that it will be exactly as he has told me. 26But it is necessary for us to run aground on some island.

27Now when the fourteenth night had come, while we being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, toward chatzot halailah (midnight), the sailors were suspecting that we were getting close to land. 28And having taken soundings, they found twenty fathoms and, having sailed a little vaiter (farther), again they took soundings, and they found fifteen fathoms. 29And fearing lest somehow against the rough places we might run aground, they threw four anchors off the stern, and they were praying for the dawn to break. 30Now when the sailors sought to flee from the oniyah and to let down the lifeboat into the sea on the pretext of casting out anchors, 31Rav Sha'ul said to the centurion and to the chaiyalim, Unless these remain in the oniyah, you cannot be saved. 32Then the chaiyalim cut away the ropes of the lifeboat, and let it fall away, setting it adrift.

33Just before boker, Rav Sha'ul was urging everyone to take okhel (food), saying, Today is the 14th day you have been held in suspense and are continuing without eating, having taken nothing. 34Therefore, I encourage you to take okhel, for it is for your deliverance, for none of you will lose a hair from your heads. 35And having said these things, and having taken lechem, Rav Sha'ul said the HaMotzi before all, and, after the Betzi'at HaLechem, he began to eat. 36And receiving ometz lev, they all took okhel. 37Now there were in all two hundred and seventy-six nefashot in the oniyah. 38And having eaten enough okhel (food), they were lightening the oniyah by throwing the wheat overboard into the sea. 39And when it became day, they were not recognizing the land, but a certain bay they were noticing, having a shore onto which they were wanting, if possible, to run aground the oniyah. 40And the anchors they cast off and they left them in the sea. At the same time they loosened the ropes of the rudders and raised the sail to the wind and were steering toward the shore. 41But having fallen into a channel, a place between two seas, they ran the oniyah aground, and, while the bow had stuck and remained immovable, the stern was being destroyed by the force of the waves. 42Now the kesher (plan, plot) of the chaiyalim was that they should kill the prisoners, lest anyone, having swum away, should escape. 43But the centurion, desiring to save Rav Sha'ul, kept them from carrying out the kesher, and he ordered the ones able to swim to throw themselves overboard first and to make for the shore. 44As for the rest, some were on planks, others on pieces from the oniyah. And so everyone was brought safely onto the land.

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