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- Fearing they would run aground on the Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor, thus letting themselves be driven along. 18 The next day, because we were violently battered by the storm, they began throwing the cargo overboard, 19 and on the third day they threw the ship’s gear overboard with their own hands. 20 When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and a violent storm continued to batter us, we finally abandoned all hope of being saved. 21 Since many of them had no desire to eat, Paul...
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The Shipwreck. 27 On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic Sea, when about midnight the sailors sensed they were approaching land. 28 They took soundings and found that the water was a hundred and twenty feet deep.
But as the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had let down the ship’s boat into the sea, on the pretense of intending to lay out anchors from the bow, Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, “Unless these men remain in the ship, you yourselves cannot be saved.”
The Shipwreck - Now when it was day, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, on which they planned if possible to run.
Acts 27:39-41. New English Translation. Paul is Shipwrecked. 39 When day came, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed[a] a bay[b] with a beach,[c] where they decided to run the ship aground if they could. 40 So they slipped[d] the anchors[e] and left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the linkage[f] that bound the steering ...
Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; Romans 8:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
An allusion, doubtless, to his escape from one of the shipwrecks by floating for twenty-four hours on a plank in the stormy sea. We have no right to assume that the deliverance was miraculous . The perfect tense shows St. Paul's vivid reminiscence of this special horror.
1 When it was decided we would sail to Italy, they handed over Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort named Julius. 2 We went on board a ship from Adramyttium that was about to sail to various ports along the coast of the province of Asia and put out to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica ...
