Acts 27:1-8

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Paul Sails for Rome

27 It was decided that we would sail for Italy. An ·officer [centurion] named Julius, who served in the ·emperor’s army [Imperial/Augustan regiment; ^Ca military unit directly under Caesar], ·guarded [took charge of] Paul and some other prisoners. ² We got on a ship that was from the city of Adramyttium [^Ca seaport on the northwest coast of Asia Minor] and was about to sail to different ports in Asia [^Ca Roman province, in present-day Turkey]. Aristarchus [19:29; 20:4; Col. 4:10; Philem. 24], a man from the city of Thessalonica [17:1] in Macedonia [16:9], went with us. ³ The next day we ·came to [landed at] Sidon [12:20]. Julius was very ·good [kind; considerate] to Paul and gave him freedom to go visit his friends, who took care of his needs. ⁴ We left Sidon and sailed ·close to [to the north of; ^Lunder the lee/shelter of] the island of Cyprus [11:19], because the wind was blowing against us. ⁵ We ·went [^Lsailed] across the sea by Cilicia [6:9; 9:11] and Pamphylia [13:13] and landed at the city of Myra [^Ca significant city on the Andracus River] in Lycia [^Ca province in southeastern Asia Minor]. ⁶ There the ·officer [centurion] found a ship from Alexandria [^Ca major city in Egypt] that was going to Italy, so he put us on it.

⁷ We sailed slowly for many days. We had a hard time reaching Cnidus [^Ca port on the southwest side of Asia Minor] because the wind was blowing against us, and we could not go any farther. So we sailed ·by the south side [^Lunder the shelter/lee] of the island of Crete [^Ca large island off the southern coast of Asia Minor] near Salmone [^Ca promontory on the eastern coast of Crete, present-day Cape Sidero]. ⁸ Sailing past it was hard. Then we came to a place called Fair Havens [^Ca bay on the southern coast of Crete], near the ·city [town] of Lasea [^Ca nearby Cretan city].