Acts 27:15

and the ship having been seized, and being unable to resist the wind, having given away to it, we were borne along.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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

14Not long afterward a typhonic wind, called Euraquilo, set in against her;

16And running under a certain island called Clauda, we were scarcely able to get possession of the boat:

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Cross References

Acts 27:27And when it was the fourteenth night, we being borne along in the Adriatic Sea, about the middle of the night the sailors surmised that some country was coming to them.

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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