27 [a]And when the fourteenth night was come, as we were carried to and fro in the [b]Adriatic sea about midnight, the shipmen deemed that some country [c]approached unto them.

28 And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms.

29 Then fearing lest they should have fallen into some rough places, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished that the day were come.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 27:27 We attain and come to the promised and sure salvation through the midst of tempests and death itself.
  2. Acts 27:27 For Ptolemy writeth, that the Adriatic Sea beateth upon the East shore of Cilicia.
  3. Acts 27:27 That they drew near to some country.

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