Acts 27:5-33

⁵And when we had sailed across the sea that is off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we landed at Myra in Lycia.

⁶There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy and put us on board.

⁷When we had sailed slowly many days and scarcely arrived opposite Cnidus, the wind did not allow us to go forward, so we sailed for the lee of Crete by way of Salmone;

⁸sailing along it with difficulty we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea.

⁹Much time had been lost and sailing was already dangerous, because even the Fast had already taken place; Paul repeatedly warned them

¹⁰saying, “Men, I perceive that the voyage is about to be with damage and great loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but even of our lives.”

¹¹But the centurion was persuaded by the pilot and ship owner rather than by what Paul said.

¹²And since the harbor was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised sailing on, to see if they could get to Phoenix in order to winter, it being a harbor of Crete facing southwest and northwest.

¹³So when the south wind blew gently, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to shore.

¹⁴But not long after, a cyclonic wind blasted down from the land (it is called Euroclydon).

¹⁵Well the ship was caught and could not head into the wind, so we gave up and were driven along.

¹⁶Running under the lee of a small island called Clauda, we barely managed to secure the skiff;

¹⁷when they had hoisted it aboard, they used cables to undergird the ship; and fearing that they might fall into the Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor and so were driven along.

¹⁸We were being so violently battered by the storm that the next day they began to jettison things,

¹⁹and on the third we threw off the ship's tackle with our own hands.

²⁰When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and a major storm was still pounding us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.

²¹Now after long abstinence from food, Paul stood up in the midst of them and said: “Well men, it would have been better to take my advice and not sail from Crete, only to ‘gain’ this damage and loss.

²²But now I urge you to take heart, because there will be no loss of life among you, only of the ship.

²³This night an angel of the God whose I am and whom I serve stood by me

²⁴and said: ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. Furthermore, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’

²⁵So take courage, men, because I believe in God that it will be just as it was told me.

²⁶Also, we must run aground on a certain island.”

²⁷Now when the fourteenth night had come, as we were being driven here and there in the Adriatic, about midnight the sailors sensed that they were nearing some land.

²⁸They took a sounding and found twenty fathoms; going on a little they took a sounding again and found fifteen fathoms.

²⁹So fearing that we might be driven into a rocky area, they dropped four anchors from the stern and started praying for day to come.

³⁰Now under pretense of putting out anchors from the prow, the sailors lowered the skiff into the sea, intending to flee from the ship;

³¹so Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, “Unless these stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.”

³²Then the soldiers severed the ropes of the skiff and let it fall away.

³³While the day was coming on, Paul started urging them all to receive food, saying: “Today is the fourteenth day of waiting—you continue without eating, having taken nothing.