Acts:27:9-28

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* And much time having now been spent , and navigation being already dangerous , because the fast also was already past , Paul counselled them , * saying , Men , I perceive that the navigation will be with disaster and much loss , not only of the cargo and the ship , but also of our lives . * But the centurion believed rather the helmsman and the shipowner than what was said by Paul . * And the harbour being ill adapted to winter in , the most counselled to set sail thence , if perhaps they might reach Phoenice to winter in , a port of Crete looking north-east and south-east . * And [the ] south wind blowing gently , supposing that they had gained their object , having weighed anchor they sailed close in shore along Crete . * But not long after there came down it a hurricane called Euroclydon . * And the ship being caught and driven , and not able to bring her head to the wind , letting her go we were driven [before it ]. * But running under the lee of a certain island called Clauda , we were with difficulty able to make ourselves masters of the boat ; * which having hoisted up , they used helps , frapping the ship ; and fearing lest they should run into Syrtis and run aground , and having lowered the gear they were so driven . * But the storm being extremely violent on us , on the next day they threw cargo overboard , * and on the third day with their own hands they cast away the ship furniture . * And neither sun nor stars appearing for many days , and no small storm lying on us , in the end all hope of our being saved was taken away . * And when they had been a long while without taking food , Paul then standing up in the midst of them said , Ye ought , O men , to have hearkened to me , and not have made sail from Crete and have gained this disaster and loss . * And now I exhort you to be of good courage , for there shall be no loss at all of life of [any ] of you , only of the ship . * For an angel of the God , whose I am and whom I serve , stood by me this night , * saying , Fear not , Paul ; thou must stand before Caesar ; and behold , God has granted to thee all those that sail with thee . * Wherefore be of good courage , men , for I believe God that thus it shall be , as it has been said to me . * But we must be cast ashore on a certain island . * And when the fourteenth night was come , we being driven about in Adria , towards the middle of the night the sailors supposed that some land neared them , * and having sounded found twenty fathoms , and having gone a little farther and having again sounded they found fifteen fathoms ;

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