Acts 27:16

And when we had passed a certain island, called Cyra, we could hardly retain the boat.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 whirled about by the wind, and could not keep head to it; and we resigned the ship to its power.

17And after hoisting it on board, we girded the ship around the waist, and made it strong. And, because we were afraid of falling upon a precipice of the sea, we pulled own the sail; and so we drifted.

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Cross References

Acts 27:30And the sailors sought to flee out of the ship. And from it they lowered down the boat into the sea, under pretence that they were going in it to make fast 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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