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Paul's Voyage to Rome Begins

Acts 27:1-12

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Chapter 27
1 And when it was decided that we should sail to Italy, they handed over both Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius of Augustus' cohort. 2 And embarking in an Adramyttian ship about to sail to the places along the coast of Asia, we set sail, with Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us. 3 The next day we landed at Sidon, and Julius, treating Paul kindly, allowed him to go to his friends and receive care. 4 From there we put to sea and sailed under the lee of Cyprus because the winds were against us. 5 And after sailing across the open sea along Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia. 6 There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing to Italy and put us on board. 7 After many days of slow and difficult sailing, and when we had come opposite Cnidus but the wind did not allow us to go farther, we sailed past Crete opposite Salmone, 8 With difficulty, coasting along it, we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea. 9 But sufficient time had passed, and the voyage was already dangerous because the Fast had already passed too. Paul advised them. 10 saying to them, "Men, I see that the voyage is going to involve not only damage and heavy loss to the cargo and the ship but also to our lives." 11 But the centurion was persuaded more by the pilot and the shipowner than by the things said by Paul. 12 And since the harbor was unsuitable for wintering, the majority advised setting sail from there, if somehow they might be able, after arriving, to winter in Phoenix, a harbor of Crete facing down along the southwest wind and down along the southeast wind.