Acts 27:1-13

1When it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they handed Paul and some other prisoners over to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan Cohort.

2So we boarded a ship from Adramyttium, which was about to sail to the ports along the coast of Asia, and we set out to sea—accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica.

3The next day we set down at Sidon. Julius, treating Paul kindly, let him go to his friends to receive care.

4Setting out to sea from there, we sailed under the shelter of Cyprus, because the winds were against us.

5When we had sailed across the open sea along the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came down to Myra in Lysia.

6There the centurion found a ship from Alexandria sailing for Italy and put us on board.

7Sailing slowly for a number of days, with difficulty we made it to Cnidus. As the wind did not allow us to go further, we sailed under the shelter of Crete, off Salmone.

8Coasting along it with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea.

9Since considerable time had passed and the voyage was already dangerous because the Fast had already gone by, Paul kept warning them,

10telling them, “Men, I can see that the voyage is about to end in disaster and great loss—not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives!”

11But the centurion was persuaded more by the pilot and the captain of the ship than by what was said by Paul.

12And because the harbor was unsuitable for wintering, the majority reached a decision to set out to sea from there—if somehow they might reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete facing northeast and southeast, and spend the winter there.

13When the south wind blew gently, supposing they had obtained their purpose, they raised the anchor and started coasting along the shore by Crete.