# Acts 27

> Lumin Translation

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Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion named Julius, of the Imperial Cohort.
2. We boarded a ship from Adramyttium that was about to sail for ports along the coast of Asia, and we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us.
3. The next day we landed at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly and allowed him to go to his friends so they could provide for his needs.
4. Putting out to sea from there, we sailed under the shelter of Cyprus because the winds were against us.
5. When we had sailed across the open sea off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we landed at Myra in Lycia.
6. There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us on board.
7. We sailed slowly for a number of days and had difficulty arriving off Cnidus. Since the wind did not allow us to go farther, we sailed under the shelter of Crete, off Salmone.
8. Sailing along the coast with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea.
9. A long time had passed, and sailing had now become dangerous because by now the Fast was already over. So Paul advised them,
10. “Men, I can see that our voyage is going to end in disaster and great loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.”
11. But the centurion was persuaded more by the pilot and the owner of the ship than by what Paul said.
12. Since the harbor was not suitable to winter in, the majority decided to put out to sea from there, hoping they could somehow reach Phoenix and spend the winter there. It was a harbor of Crete facing southwest and northwest.
13. When a gentle south wind began to blow, they thought they had obtained what they wanted, so they weighed anchor and sailed along the coast of Crete, close to shore.
14. But before very long a hurricane-force wind, called the Northeaster, rushed down from the island.
15. The ship was caught by the storm and could not head into the wind, so we gave way to it and were driven along.
16. As we ran under the shelter of a small island called Cauda, we were barely able to get control of the ship’s boat.
17. After the men had hoisted it aboard, they used ropes to brace the ship. Because they were afraid they would run aground on the Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor and so let themselves be driven along.
18. We were being so violently battered by the storm that the next day they began to throw the cargo overboard.
19. On the third day they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands.
20. When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the storm continued to rage, we finally gave up all hope of being saved.
21. After they had gone a long time without food, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have listened to me and not set sail from Crete. Then you would have avoided this damage and loss.
22. But now I urge you to take courage, because not one of you will lose your life; only the ship will be lost.
23. For last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood beside me
24. and said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar, and God has graciously given you the lives of all who are sailing with you.’
25. So take courage, men, for I trust God that it will turn out just as he told me.
26. But we must run aground on some island.”
27. On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic Sea, when about midnight the sailors sensed that they were approaching land.
28. They took soundings and found that the water was twenty fathoms deep. A little later they took soundings again and found it was fifteen fathoms deep.
29. Afraid that we might run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daylight to come.
30. The sailors tried to escape from the ship. They lowered the ship’s boat into the sea, pretending they were going to put out anchors from the bow.
31. But Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved.”
32. So the soldiers cut the ropes that held the boat and let it drift away.
33. Just before daybreak Paul urged them all to eat. “For the last fourteen days,” he said, “you have been in constant suspense and have gone without food, eating nothing.
34. So I urge you to eat some food, for it will help you survive. Not one of you will lose a single hair from his head.”
35. After he said this, he took bread, gave thanks to God in front of them all, broke it, and began to eat.
36. They were all encouraged and ate some food themselves.
37. Altogether there were 276 of us on board.
38. When they had eaten as much as they wanted, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.
39. When daylight came, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.
40. So they cut loose the anchors and left them in the sea, and at the same time they untied the ropes that held the rudders. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and made for the beach.
41. But they struck a sandbar where two currents met and ran the ship aground. The bow stuck fast and would not move, and the stern was being broken to pieces by the pounding of the waves.
42. The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners so that none of them would swim away and escape.
43. But the centurion wanted to save Paul, so he kept them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land,
44. and the rest were to follow, some on planks and some on pieces of the ship. In this way everyone reached land safely.

## Nearby chapters

[Acts 26](https://www.lumin.faith/read/acts/26.md)
[Acts 28](https://www.lumin.faith/read/acts/28.md)

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