Acts 27:15
And the ship being caught and unable to bear up against the wind, we committed it to the gale, and were driven along.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.
In Context
14But in a little time a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon, blew against it.
16And running under the lee of a certain island called Clauda, we with difficulty secured the boat.
Cross References
Acts 27:27But when the fourteenth night had come, and we were drifting up and down in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors supposed that they were drawing near some land.
Matthew Henry on Acts 27:13-21
Paul's Voyage towards Rome. 12 And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west. 13 And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete. 14 But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon. 15 And when the ship was… Read the whole commentary →