Acts 27:16

And when we had passed a certain isle that is called Cyra; we could scarcely take up the boat.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat:

In Context

15and the ship was carried away, and could not stand against the wind, and we gave her into its hand.

17And when we had uplifted her, we girded and strengthened the ship. And because we feared lest we should fall into the precipitancy of the sea, we brought down the sails, and so went forward.i

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Cross References

Acts 27:30But the mariners sought to escape from the ship, and lowered from her the boat into the sea, on the pretext that they would go in her, and bind the ship to the 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 →

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