Acts 27:15
Unable to head into the wind, the ship was caught up. So we gave way and let ourselves be driven along.
Majority Standard Bible
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 it was not long before a cyclone called the Northeaster swept down across the island.
16Passing to the lee of a small island called Clauda, we barely managed to secure the lifeboat.
Cross References
Acts 27:27On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic Sea. About midnight the sailors sensed they were approaching 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 →