KJ3 Literal Translation
Acts 27
1 Paul sailing toward Rome, 10 foretells of the danger of the voyage. 14 They are tossed to and fro with a storm, 41 and suffer shipwreck, 22, 34, 44 yet all come safe to land.
1And when it was decided for us to sail to Italy, they gave over both Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion by name Julius, of a cohort of Augustus.
2And boarding a ship of Adramyttium which was about to sail to the places alongside Asia, we set sail, Aristarchus a Macedonian of Thessalonica being with us.
3And on the next day we brought to land at Sidon. And treating Paul kindly, Julius allowed him, going to his friends to obtain care.
4And setting sail from there, we sailed close to Cyprus, because of the winds being contrary.
5And sailing over the sea against Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra of Lycia.
6And the centurion finding there an Alexandrian ship sailing to Italy, he put us into it.
7And in many days, sailing slowly and with difficulty, hardly coming against Cnidus, the wind not allowing us, we sailed close to Crete against Salmone.
8And sailing along it with difficulty, we came to a certain place being called Fair Havens, near to which was a city, Lasea.
9And considerable time having passed, and the voyage already being dangerous, because the Fast already had gone by, Paul advised them,
10saying to them, Men, I perceive that the voyage is about to be with hardship and much loss, not only of the cargo and of the ship, but also of our souls.
11But the centurion was rather persuaded by the helmsman and the ship-owner, than by the things being said by Paul.
12And the harbor not being fit for wintering, the majority gave counsel to set sail from there, if somehow they may be able to pass the winter, having arrived at Phoenix, a harbor of Crete looking toward the southwest, and with winds toward the northwest.
13And a south wind blowing gently, thinking to have gained the purpose, raising anchor they sailed by nearer Crete.
14But not much after, a typhonic wind, being called Euroclydon, smote down on it.
15And the ship being seized, and not being able to face into the wind, giving over we were borne along.
16But running under an islet being called Clauda, we hardly had strength to get mastery of the boat;
17which taking, they used helps, undergirding the ship. And fearing lest into the Syrtis shoals they fall, lowering the tackle, so they were borne along.
18But we being violently storm tossed, they made a jettisoning on the next day.
19And on the third day we threw out the ship’s tackle with our hands.
20And neither sun nor stars having appeared over many days, and no small tempest pressing hard, finally all hope for us to be saved was taken away.
21And there being much abstinence, then standing up in their midst, Paul said, Truly, O men, obeying me you ought not to have set sail from Crete, and to spare yourselves and this hardship and loss.
22And now I exhort you to be cheered, for there will be not one loss of life from you, except of the ship.
23For this night an angel of God stood by me, whose I am, and whom I serve,
24saying, Do not fear, Paul, You must stand before Caesar. And, behold, God has granted to you all the ones sailing with you.
25Therefore, be cheered, men, for I believe God, that it will be so according to the way it was spoken to me.
26But it is necessary for us to fall off onto a certain island.
27And when the fourteenth night came, we being carried about in the Adriatic Sea, toward the middle of the night the sailors supposed us to be coming near to them some land.
28And taking soundings, they found it to be twenty fathoms; and having gone a little farther, and taking soundings again, they found it to be fifteen fathoms.
29And fearing lest they should fall off onto rough places, and casting four anchors out of the stern, they prayed day to come on.
30But the sailors seeking to flee out of the ship, and lowering the boat into the sea, as a pretext to be about to cast out anchors from the prow,
31Paul said to the centurion, and to the soldiers, If not these men remain in the ship, you cannot be saved.
32Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let it fall.
33And until day was about to come on, Paul begged all to receive a share of food, saying, Today is the fourteenth day you continued waiting in abstinence, not having taken anything.
34Therefore I exhort you to take of food, for this is to your deliverance, for not one hair of your head will fall.
35And having said these things, and having taken bread, he gave thanks to God before all; and having broken, he began to eat.
36And all becoming cheered, they also took food.
37And we were, all the souls in the ship, two hundred seventy-six.
38And being satisfied with food, they lightened the ship, throwing the wheat out into the sea.
39And when day came on, they did not recognize the land, but they noted a certain bay having a beach, into which they purposed, if they were able, to drive the ship.
40And casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the bands of the rudders, and raising the foresail to the blowing wind, they headed to the beach.
41And having fallen on a place with an inlet between two seas, they drove the vessel. And indeed the prow having stuck firmly, it remained. But the stern was broken by the violence of the waves.
42And the mind of the soldiers was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any swimming out should escape.
43But purposing to save Paul, the centurion stopped them from their purpose and commanded the ones able to swim, first throwing themselves down, to go out on the land.
44And the rest went, this one indeed on planks, and this one on some of the things from the ship. And so it happened all to be saved on the land.
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