Acts 27:1-28 When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan cohort named Julius.

Common⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan cohort named Julius. ² And embarking in a ship from Adramyttium, which was about to sail to the ports along the coast of Asia, we put out to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica. ³ The next day we put in at Sidon; and Julius treated Paul kindly, and allowed him to go to his friends and be cared for. ⁴ We put out to sea from there and sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were against us. ⁵ When we had sailed across the open sea off the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we landed at Myra in Lycia. ⁶ There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy, and he put us aboard it. ⁷ When we had sailed slowly for a good many days, and with difficulty had arrived off Cnidus, since the wind did not allow us to go farther, we sailed under the lee of Crete, off Salmone. ⁸ We sailed along it with difficulty and came to a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea. ⁹ As much time had been lost, and the voyage was now dangerous because the fast had already gone by, Paul advised them, ¹⁰ and said to them, "Men, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and great loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives." ¹¹ But the centurion was more persuaded by the pilot and the owner of the ship than by what was being said by Paul. ¹² Because the harbor was not suitable to winter in, the majority reached a decision to put out to sea from there, on the chance that somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, facing southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there. ¹³ When a gentle south wind came up, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and began sailing along Crete, close inshore. ¹⁴ But before very long there rushed down from the land a violent wind, called the northeaster; ¹⁵ and when the ship was caught in it and could not face the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along. ¹⁶ And running under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we were scarcely able to secure the boat. ¹⁷ After they had hoisted it up, they used supporting cables to undergird the ship; and fearing that they might run aground on the shallows of Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor and in this way let themselves be driven along. ¹⁸ The next day as we were being violently storm-tossed, they began to throw the cargo overboard; ¹⁹ and on the third day they threw the ship's tackle overboard with their own hands. ²⁰ When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small storm was raging on us, all hope of our being saved was finally abandoned. ²¹ When they had gone a long time without food, then Paul stood up among them and said, "Men, you should have followed my advice and not to have set sail from Crete and incurred this damage and loss. ²² Yet now I urge you to keep up your courage; for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship. ²³ For this very night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood before me, ²⁴ and he said, 'Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar; and behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.' ²⁵ So keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will happen exactly as I have been told. ²⁶ But we must run aground on some island." ²⁷ But when the fourteenth night came, as we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors began to sense that they were approaching land. ²⁸ They took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and a little farther on they took soundings again and found it to be fifteen fathoms.