Acts 27:39-44
1599 Geneva Bible
39 [a]And when it was day, they knew not the country, but they spied a certain [b]creek with a bank, into the which they were minded (if it were possible) to thrust in the ship.
40 So when they had taken up the anchors, they committed the ship unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bonds, and hoisted up the main sail to the wind, and drew to the shore.
41 And when they fell into a place, where [c]two seas met, they thrust in the ship: and the forepart stuck fast, and could not be moved, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
42 [d]Then the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them, when he had swam out, should flee away.
43 [e]But the Centurion willing to save Paul, stayed them from this counsel, and commanded that they that could swim, should cast themselves first into the sea, and go out to land:
44 [f]And the others, some on boards, and some on certain pieces of the ship: and so it came to pass, that they came all safe to land.
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- Acts 27:39 Then are tempests most of all to be feared and looked for, when the port or haven is nearest.
- Acts 27:39 A creek is a sea within land, as the Adriatic Sea, and the Persian Sea.
- Acts 27:41 So is Isthmus called, because the sea toucheth it on both sides.
- Acts 27:42 There is nowhere more unfaithfulness and unthankfulness than in unbelievers.
- Acts 27:43 God findeth even amongst his enemies them whose help he useth to preserve his.
- Acts 27:44 The goodness of God overcometh man’s malice.
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