CHAPTER 27
1 But as it was deemed him to ship into Italy, they betook Paul with other keepers [or with other men kept] to a centurion, by name Julius, of the company of knights of the emperor.
2 And we went up into the ship of Adramyttium, and began to sail, and were borne about the places of Asia, while Aristarchus of Macedonia, Thessalonica, dwelled still with us.
3 And in the day pursuing, we came to Sidon; and Julius treated courteously Paul, and suffered [him] to go to friends, and to do his needs [or to do the care of him].
4 And when we removed from thence, we under-sailed to Cyprus, for that winds were contrary.
5 And we sailed in the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, and came to Lystra, that is Lycia.
6 And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria, sailing into Italy, and putted us over into it.
7 And when in many days we sailed slowly, and scarcely came against Cnidus, for the wind hindered us, we sailed to Crete, beside Salmone.
8 And scarcely we sailed beside, and came into a place, that is called of good haven, to whom the city Lasea was nigh.
9 And when much time was passed, and when sailing then was not secure, for that fasting was passed, Paul comforted them,
10 and said to them, Men, I see that sailing beginneth to be with wrong and much harm, not only of the charge, and of the ship, but also of our lives.
11 But the centurion believed more to the governor, and to the lord of the ship, than to these things that were said of Paul.
12 And when the haven was not able [for] to dwell in winter, full many ordained counsel to sail from thence, if on [or in] any manner they might come to Phoenix, to dwell in winter at the haven of Crete, which behold-eth to Africa, that is, southwest, and to Corum, that is, northwest.
13 And when the south blew, they guessed them to hold purpose; and when they had removed [or taken up] from Assos, they sailed to Crete.
14 And not after much [time], the wind Tifonyk, that is called northeast, [or wind of tempest], was against it.
15 And when the ship was ravished, and might not endeavour against [or into] the wind, when the ship was given to the blowings of the wind, we were borne
16 with course into an isle, that is called Cauda; and scarcely we might get a little boat.
17 And when this was taken up, they used helps, girding together the ship; and dreaded, lest they should fall into sandy places. And when the vessel was under-set, so they were borne.
18 And for we were thrown with strong tempest, in the day pursuing they made casting out.
19 And the third day with their hands they cast away the instruments of the ship.
20 And when [neither] the sun neither the stars were seen by many days, and tempest not a little nighed, now all the hope of our health was done away.
21 And when much fasting had been, then Paul stood in the middle of them, and said, A! [or O!] men, it behooved, when ye heard me, not to have taken away the ship from Crete, and get this wrong and casting out.
22 And now I counsel you to be of good comfort [or of good heart], for loss of no person of you shall be, except of the ship.
23 For an angel of God, whose I am, and to whom I serve, stood nigh to me in this night,
24 and said, Paul, dread thou not; it behooveth thee to stand before the emperor [or Caesar]. And lo! God hath given to thee all that be in the ship with thee.
25 For which thing, ye men, be of good comfort [or of good heart]; for I believe to my God, that so it shall be, as it is said to me.
26 And it behooveth us to come into some isle.
27 But afterward that in the fourteen day the night came on us sailing in the stony sea, about midnight the shipmen supposed some country to appear to them.
28 And they cast [or sent] down a plummet, and found twenty fathoms of deepness. And after a little they were departed from thence, and found fifteen fathoms.
29 And they dreaded, lest we should have fallen into sharp places; and from the last part of the ship they sent four anchors, and desired that the day had become [or were made].
30 And when the shipmen sought to flee from the ship, when they had sent a little boat into the sea, under colour as they should begin to stretch forth the anchors from the former part of the ship,
31 Paul said to the centurion and to the knights, But these dwell in the ship, ye may not be made safe.
32 Then [the] knights cutted away the cords of the little boat, and suffered it to fall away.
33 And when the day was come, Paul prayed all men to take meat, and said, The fourteenth day this day ye abide, and dwell fasting, and take nothing.
34 Wherefore I pray you to take meat, for your health; for of none of you the hair of the head shall perish.
35 And when he had said these things, Paul took bread, and did thankings to God in the sight of all men; and when he had broken, he began to eat.
36 And all were made of better comfort, [or made more patient, or hardy], and they took meat.
37 And we were all men in the ship, two hundred seventy and six.
38 And they were [full]-filled with meat, and discharged the ship, and cast wheat into the sea.
39 And when the day was come, they knew no land; and they beheld an haven that had a water-bank, into which they thought, if they might, to bring up the ship.
40 And when they had taken up the anchors, they betook them [in] to the sea, and slacked together the jointures of rudders. And with a little sail lifted up, by blowing of the wind they went to the bank.
41 And when we felled into a place of gravel gone all about with the sea, they hurtled the ship. And when the former part was fixed, it dwelled unmoveable, and the last part was broken of [or by] the strength of the sea.
42 And [the] counsel of the knights’ was, to slay men that were in ward [or in the keeping], lest any should escape, when he had swimmed out.
43 But the centurion would keep Paul, and forbade it to be done. And he commanded them that might swim, to go [first] into the sea, and escape, and go out to the land.
44 And they bare some others on boards, some on those things that were of the ship. And so it was done, that all [the] men escaped to the land.