Acts 27:1-8

Listen to Acts 27:1-8

Paul Sails for Rome

1 When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion named Julius, who belonged to the Imperial [a] Regiment.
2 We boarded an Adramyttian ship about to sail for ports along the coast of Asia, [b] and we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us.
3 The next day we landed at Sidon, and Julius treated Paul with consideration, allowing him to visit his friends and receive their care.
4 After putting out from there, we sailed to the lee of Cyprus because the winds were against us.
5 And when we had sailed across the open sea off the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia.
6 There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us on board.
7 After sailing slowly for many days, we arrived off Cnidus. When the wind impeded us, we sailed to the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone.
8 After we had moved along the coast with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea.

Footnotes 2

  • [a] Or Augustan
  • [b] Literally sail to the places along Asia; Asia was a Roman province in what is now western Turkey.
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