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Acts 27
⁷ When we had sailed slowly for a good many days, and with difficulty had arrived off Cnidus, since the wind did not permit us to go farther, we sailed under the shelter of Crete, off Salmone;
⁸ and with difficulty sailing past it we came to a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea.
⁹ When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even the fast was already over, Paul began to admonish them,
¹⁰ and said to them, "Men, I perceive that the voyage will certainly be with damage and great loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives."
¹¹ But the centurion was more persuaded by the pilot and the captain of the ship than by what was being said by Paul.
¹² Because the harbor was not suitable for wintering, the majority reached a decision to put out to sea from there, if somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, facing southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.
¹³ When a moderate south wind came up, supposing that they had attained their purpose, they weighed anchor and began sailing along Crete, close inshore.
¹⁴ But before very long there rushed down from the land a violent wind, called Euraquilo;
¹⁵ and when the ship was caught in it and could not face the wind, we gave way to it and let ourselves be driven along.
¹⁶ Running under the shelter of a small island called Clauda, we were scarcely able to get the ship’s boat under control.
¹⁷ After they had hoisted it up, they used supporting cables in undergirding the ship; and fearing that they might run aground on the shallows of Syrtis, they let down the sea anchor and in this way let themselves be driven along.