Acts 27:16-18

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¹⁶ By running under the lee of a small island called Cauda^[a] we were scarcely able to get the ship’s boat under control. ¹⁷ After hoisting it up they took measures to undergird the ship; then, fearing that they would run on the Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor and so were driven.^{(A) 18} We were being pounded by the storm so violently that on the next day they began to throw the cargo overboard,^(B)