Acts 27:9-13

9We remained there for many days. By then it had become dangerous to continue the journey. It was already after the Day of Atonement. So Paul spoke to the army officer and to the sailors.

10He said, ‘Friends, I understand that now our journey will be dangerous. The ship may break in pieces. You may lose the things that the ship is carrying. All of us may even die.’

11But the army officer did not believe what Paul said. Instead, he decided to do what the owner of the ship and the captain said.

12This port was not a good place for a ship to remain during the winter. Most of the men on the ship wanted to continue the journey. They wanted to sail as far as Phoenix, if they could get there. They could stay there for the winter. Phoenix was a port on the island called Crete. It was open to the sea both to the south-west and to the north-west.

13The wind began to blow from the south, but it was not strong. So the sailors thought, ‘Now we can do what we wanted to do. We can sail to Phoenix.’ So they pulled up the ship's anchor and left the port. Then we sailed as near as we could to the coast of Crete.