Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Paul Is Put On a Ship Under Guard For The Voyage To Rome

27 And when it was determined that we^[a] should sail-away to Italy, they were handing-over both Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Imperial^[b] cohort, Julius by name. ² And having boarded an Adramyttian^[c] ship being about to sail to the places along [the coast of] Asia, we put-to-sea— Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us. ³ And on another day we put in at Sidon. And Julius, having treated Paul humanely, permitted him to obtain care^[d], having gone to his friends. ⁴ And from there, having put-to-sea, we sailed-under-the-shelter^[e]-of Cyprus because of the winds being contrary. ⁵ And having sailed-through the open-sea along Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came down to Myra of Lycia. ⁶ And there the centurion, having found an Alexandrian ship sailing to Italy, put us on board in it. ⁷ And in many^[f] days, sailing-slowly and with-difficulty, having come-to-be off Cnidus^[g]— the wind not permitting us to go farther^[h]— we sailed-under-the-shelter-of Crete off Salmone. ⁸ And sailing-along it^[i] with-difficulty, we came to a certain place being called Fair Havens, near to which was the city Lasea. ⁹ And a considerable time having passed, and the voyage being already dangerous^[j] because even the Fast^[k] had passed-by already, Paul was advising, ¹⁰ saying to them, “Men, I perceive^[l] that the voyage will-certainly be with damage^[m] and great loss— not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives”. ¹¹ But the centurion was being persuaded more by the helmsman and the captain than by the things being said by Paul. ¹² And the harbor being unsuitable for wintering, the majority made a plan^[n] to put-to-sea from there— if somehow they might be able to spend-the-winter having attained to Phoenix^[o], a harbor of Crete looking toward the southwest and toward the northwest.