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It was a harbor of Crete, facing southwest and northwest.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Storm at Sea</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>When a moderate south wind began to blow, they thought they could achieve their purpose; so they weighed anchor and began to sail past Crete, close to the shore. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>But soon a violent wind, called the northeaster, rushed down from Crete.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-32128a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Since the ship was caught and could not be turned head-on into the wind, we gave way to it and were driven. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>By running under the lee of a small island called Cauda<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-32130b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> we were scarcely able to get the ship’s boat under control. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>After hoisting it up they took measures<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-32131c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> to undergird the ship; then, fearing that they would run on the Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor and so were driven. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>We were being pounded by the storm so violently that on the next day they began to throw the cargo overboard, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>and on the third day with their own hands they threw the ship’s tackle overboard. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest raged, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Since they had been without food for a long time, Paul then stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have listened to me and not have set sail from Crete and thereby avoided this damage and loss. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>I urge you now to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>For last night there stood by me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>and he said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before the emperor; and indeed, God has granted safety to all those who are sailing with you.’ </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>So keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will be exactly as I have been told. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>But we will have to run aground on some island.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>When the fourteenth night had come, as we were drifting across the sea of Adria, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>So they took soundings and found twenty fathoms; a little farther on they took soundings again and found fifteen fathoms. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>Fearing that we might run on the rocks, they let down four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>But when the sailors tried to escape from the ship and had lowered the boat into the sea, on the pretext of putting out anchors from the bow, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat and set it adrift.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>Just before daybreak, Paul urged all of them to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have been in suspense and remaining without food, having eaten nothing. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>Therefore I urge you to take some food, for it will help you survive; for none of you will lose a hair from your heads.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>After he had said this, he took bread; and giving thanks to God in the presence of all, he broke it and began to eat. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">36</span>Then all of them were encouraged and took food for themselves. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">37</span>(We were in all two hundred seventy-six<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-32151d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> persons in the ship.) </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">38</span>After they had satisfied their hunger, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Shipwreck</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">39</span>In the morning they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, on which they planned to run the ship ashore, if they could. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">40</span>So they cast off the anchors and left them in the sea. At the same time they loosened the ropes that tied the steering-oars; then hoisting the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">41</span>But striking a reef,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-32155e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> they ran the ship aground; the bow stuck and remained immovable, but the stern was being broken up by the force of the waves. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">42</span>The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none might swim away and escape; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">43</span>but the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and make for the land, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">44</span>and the rest to follow, some on planks and others on pieces of the ship. And so it was that all were brought safely to land.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Acts 27:14">Acts 27:14</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>it</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Acts 27:16">Acts 27:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities read <i>Clauda</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Acts 27:17">Acts 27:17</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>helps</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Acts 27:37">Acts 27:37</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities read <i>seventy-six</i>; others, <i>about seventy-six</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Acts 27:41">Acts 27:41</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>place of two seas</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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