27:1  When the decision came that we would sail for Italy, they proceeded to deliver Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan cohort named Julius.

27:2   And embarking in an Adramyttian ship, which we had intended to sail to the regions along the coast of Asia, we put out to sea accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica.

27:3  The next day we put in at Sidon; and Julius treated Paul with consideration and allowed him to go to his friends and receive care.

27:4   From there we put out to sea and sailed under the shelter of Cyprus because the winds seemed contrary.

27:5  When we had sailed through the sea along the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we landed at Myra in Lycia.

27:6   There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy, and he put us aboard it.

27:7  When we had sailed slowly for a good many days, and with difficulty had arrived off Cnidus, since the wind did not permit us to go farther, we sailed under the shelter of Crete, off Salmone;

27:8   and with difficulty sailing past it we came to a place called Fair Havens, near which people called the city of Lasea.

27:9   When considerable time had passed and the voyage became now more dangerous, since even the fast had come to a conclusion, Paul began to admonish them,

27:10   and said to them, "Men, I perceive that the voyage will certainly bring damage and great loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives."

27:11   But the centurion seemed more persuaded by the pilot and the captain of the ship than by what Paul said.

27:12  Because the harbor did not seem suitable for wintering, the majority reached a decision to put out to sea from there, if somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, facing southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.

27:13   When a moderate south wind came up, supposing that they had attained their purpose, they weighed anchor and began sailing along Crete, close inshore.

27:14   But before very long there rushed down from the land a violent wind, called Euraquilo;

27:15   and when the ship became caught in it and could not face the wind, we gave way to it and let ourselves drift along.

27:16   Running under the shelter of a small island called Clauda, we could scarcely get the ship's boat under control.

27:17   After they had hoisted it up, they used supporting cables in undergirding the ship; and fearing that they might run aground on the shallows of Syrtis, they let down the sea anchor and in this way let themselves drift along.

27:18   The next day as we became violently storm-tossed, they began to jettison the cargo;

27:19   and on the third day they threw the ship's tackle overboard with their own hands.

27:20   Since neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small storm assailed us, from then on all hope of our someone saving us gradually dwindled.

27:21  When they had gone a long time without food, then Paul stood up in their midst and said, " Men, you ought to have followed my advice and not to have set sail from Crete and incurred this damage and loss.

27:22   "Yet now I urge you to keep up your courage, for there will not occur loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

27:23   "For this very night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood before me,

27:24   saying, 'Do not fear, Paul; you must stand before Caesar; and behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.'

27:25   "Therefore, keep up your courage, men, for I believe God that it will turn out exactly as I have heard.

27:26   "But we must run aground on a certain island."

27:27   But when the fourteenth night came, as we became driven about in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors began to surmise that they had approached some land.

27:28  They took soundings and found it to measure twenty fathoms; and a little farther on they took another sounding and found it to measure fifteen fathoms.

27:29   Fearing that we might run aground somewhere on the rocks, they cast four anchors from the stern and wished for daybreak.

27:30   But as the sailors tried to escape from the ship and had let down the ship's boat into the sea, on the pretense of intending to lay out anchors from the bow,

27:31   Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless these men remain in the ship, you yourselves cannot become saved."

27:32   Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship's boat and let it fall away.

27:33   Until the day just about to dawn, Paul encouraged them all to take some food, saying, "Today you have reached the fourteenth day that you have constantly watched and going without eating, having taken nothing.

27:34   "Therefore I encourage you to take some food, for this will help preserve you, for not a hair from the head of any of you will perish."

27:35  Having said this, he took bread and gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and he broke it and began to eat.

27:36   All of them felt encouraged and they themselves also took food.

27:37   All of us in the ship numbered two hundred and seventy-six persons.

27:38   When they had eaten enough, they began to lighten the ship by throwing out the wheat into the sea.

27:39   When day came, they could not recognize the land; but they did observe a bay with a beach, and they resolved to drive the ship onto it if they could.

27:40   And casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea while at the same time they loosened the ropes of the rudders; and hoisting the foresail to the wind, they headed for the beach.

27:41   But striking a reef where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground; and the prow stuck fast and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up by the force of the waves.

27:42   The soldiers' planned to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim away and escape;

27:43   but the centurion, wanting to bring Paul safely through, kept them from their intention, and commanded that those who could swim should jump overboard first and get to land,

27:44   and the rest should follow, some on planks, and others on various things from the ship. And so it happened that they all arrived safely on land.