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Paul’s Farewell to the Ephesian Elders
We went on ahead to the ship and sailed for Assos, where we were going to take Paul aboard. He had made this arrangement because he was going there on foot.
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What grieved them most was his statement that they would never see his face again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.
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We found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, went on board and set sail.
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After sighting Cyprus and passing to the south of it, we sailed on to Syria. We landed at Tyre, where our ship was to unload its cargo.
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After saying goodbye to each other, we went aboard the ship, and they returned home.
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We boarded a ship from Adramyttium about to sail for ports along the coast of the province of Asia, and we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us.
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There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us on board.
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“Men, I can see that our voyage is going to be disastrous and bring great loss to ship and cargo, and to our own lives also.”
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But the centurion, instead of listening to what Paul said, followed the advice of the pilot and of the owner of the ship.
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The ship was caught by the storm and could not head into the wind; so we gave way to it and were driven along.
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so the men hoisted it aboard. Then they passed ropes under the ship itself to hold it together. Because they were afraid they would run aground on the sandbars of Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor and let the ship be driven along.
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On the third day, they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands.
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But now I urge you to keep up your courage, because not one of you will be lost; only the ship will be destroyed.
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The Shipwreck
On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic Sea, when about midnight the sailors sensed they were approaching land.
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In an attempt to escape from the ship, the sailors let the lifeboat down into the sea, pretending they were going to lower some anchors from the bow.
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Then Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved.”
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When they had eaten as much as they wanted, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.
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When daylight came, they did not recognize the land, but they saw a bay with a sandy beach, where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.
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But the ship struck a sandbar and ran aground. The bow stuck fast and would not move, and the stern was broken to pieces by the pounding of the surf.
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The rest were to get there on planks or on other pieces of the ship. In this way everyone reached land safely.
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Paul’s Arrival at Rome
After three months we put out to sea in a ship that had wintered in the island—it was an Alexandrian ship with the figurehead of the twin gods Castor and Pollux.
