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When it had been decided that we should sail to Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion called Julius, of the Augustan cohort. (Acts 27, 1)
We boarded a vessel from Adramyttium bound for ports on the Asiatic coast and put to sea; we had Aristarchus with us, a Macedonian of Thessalonica. (Acts 27, 2)
then across the open sea off Cilicia and Pamphylia, taking a fortnight to reach Myra in Lycia. (Acts 27, 5)
There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship leaving for Italy and put us aboard. (Acts 27, 6)
For some days we made little headway, and we had difficulty in making Cnidus. The wind would not allow us to touch there, so we sailed under the lee of Crete off Cape Salmone (Acts 27, 7)
But the centurion took more notice of the captain and the ship's owner than of what Paul was saying; (Acts 27, 11)
and since the harbour was unsuitable for wintering, the majority were for putting out from there in the hope of wintering at Phoenix -- a harbour in Crete, facing south-west and north-west. (Acts 27, 12)
A southerly breeze sprang up and, thinking their objective as good as reached, they weighed anchor and began to sail past Crete, close inshore. (Acts 27, 13)
But it was not long before a hurricane, the 'north-easter' as they call it, burst on them from across the island. (Acts 27, 14)
Having hauled it up they used it to undergird the ship; then, afraid of running aground on the Syrtis banks, they floated out the sea-anchor and so let themselves drift. (Acts 27, 17)
As we were thoroughly storm-bound, the next day they began to jettison the cargo, (Acts 27, 18)
For a number of days both the sun and the stars were invisible and the storm raged unabated until at last we gave up all hope of surviving. (Acts 27, 20)
