Acts 27:15
And the ship was whirled about by the wind, and could not keep head to it; and we resigned the ship to its power.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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
14And shortly after, a tempest of wind arose upon us, called Typhonic Euroclydon.
16And when we had passed a certain island, called Cyra, we could hardly retain the boat.
Cross References
Acts 27:27And after the fourteen days of our roaming and tossing on the Adriatic sea, at midnight, the sailors conceived that they approached 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 →