Acts 27:15

15 And when the ship was caught and coulde not resist the wynde we let her goo and drave with the wether.

Acts 27:15 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 27:15

And when the ship was caught
By the wind, snatched up by it, and forcibly carried away:

and could not bear up into the wind;
and against it, or look it in the face, as the word signifies; could not ply to windward, the wind being so high and the sea so strong:

we let her drive;
about the sea, at pleasure, it being in vain to attempt to get her forward against the wind, or to direct her course.

Acts 27:15 In-Context

13 When the south wynde blewe they supposynge to obtayne their purpose lowsed vnto Asson and sayled paste all Candy.

14 But anone after ther arose agaynste their purpose a flawe of wynde out of the northeeste.

15 And when the ship was caught and coulde not resist the wynde we let her goo and drave with the wether.

16 And we came vnto an yle named Clauda and had moche worke to come by abote

17 which they toke vp and vsed helpe vndergerdynge the shippe fearynge lest we shuld have fallen into Syrtes and we let doune a vessell and so were caryed.