Acts 27:7

Then for many days making very slow way, and scarce reaching over against Knidos, the wind not favouring us, we coasted Crete, opposite Cape Salmone:

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

And when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone;

In Context

6And the centurion finding there a ship of Alexandria bound for Italy, he put us on board of it.

8and weathering it with difficulty, we came to a certain place called, The fair havens; near to which is the city Lasea.

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Cross References

Acts 27:4And taking our departure from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.

Acts 27:21Now after being a long while without food, then stood up Paul in the midst of them, and said, Ye ought, my friends, to have been persuaded by me, and not have sailed from Crete, and got this loss and damage.

Titus 1:12One of them, a poet of their own nation, hath said, The Cretans are always liars, wicked beasts, slothful gluttons.

Matthew Henry on Acts 27:2-12

Paul's Voyage towards Rome. 1 And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus' band. 2 And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia; one Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us. 3 And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself. 4 And when we had launched… Read the whole commentary →

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