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But Jonah got up and went in the opposite direction to get away from the Lord. He went down to the port of Joppa, where he found a ship leaving for Tarshish. He bought a ticket and went on board, hoping to escape from the Lord by sailing to Tarshish.

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Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was also with us. We left on a ship whose home port was Adramyttium on the northwest coast of the province of Asia;[a] it was scheduled to make several stops at ports along the coast of the province.

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Footnotes

  1. 27:2 Asia was a Roman province in what is now western Turkey.

There the commanding officer found an Egyptian ship from Alexandria that was bound for Italy, and he put us on board.

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Paul Arrives at Rome

11 It was three months after the shipwreck that we set sail on another ship that had wintered at the island—an Alexandrian ship with the twin gods[a] as its figurehead.

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Footnotes

  1. 28:11 The twin gods were the Roman gods Castor and Pollux.

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