Acts 27:43

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But the vnder captayne wyllyng to saue Paul, kept the from their purpose, & commaunded that they which coulde swymme, shoulde cast them selues first into the sea, and scape to lande:

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  • Acts 27:3 : 3 And the next day we came to Sidon: And Iulius curteouslye entreated Paul, and gaue hym libertie to go vnto his friendes, and to refreshe hym selfe.
  • Acts 27:11 : 11 Neuerthelesse, the vnder captayne beleued the gouernour and the maister of the shippe, more then those thynges which were spoken of Paul.
  • Acts 27:31 : 31 Paul sayde vnto the vnder captayne, and to the souldiers: Except these abide in the shippe, ye can not be safe.
  • 2 Cor 11:25 : 25 Thryse was I beaten with roddes, once stoned, thrise I suffred shipwracke, nyght and day haue I ben in ye depth:
  • Prov 16:7 : 7 When a mans wayes please the Lord, he maketh his very enemies to be his frendes.
  • Acts 23:10 : 10 And when there arose a great debate, the chiefe captayne, fearyng lest Paul shoulde haue ben pluckt asunder of the, comaunded the souldiers to go downe, and to take him from among them, and to bryng hym into the castle.
  • Acts 23:24 : 24 And delyuer them beastes, that they may set Paul on, and bryng hym safe vnto Felix the hye deputie.

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  • Acts 27:38-42
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    89%

    38And when they had eaten enough, they lyghted the shippe, and cast out the wheate into the sea.

    39And when it was day, they knewe not the lande: but they spyed a certayne hauen with a banke, into the which they were mynded, yf it were possible, to thrust in the shippe.

    40And when they had taken vp the anckers, they committed themselues vnto the sea, and loosed the rudder bondes, and hoyssed vp the mayne sayle to the wynde, and drewe to lande.

    41And when they fell into a place which had the sea on both sydes, they thrust in the shippe: And the forepart stucke fast & moued not, but the hynder part brake with the violence of the waues.

    42And the souldiers counsel was to kyll the prysoners, lest any of them, when he had swomme out, should runne away.

  • Acts 27:44
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    44And the other, some on boordes, and some on broke peeces of the shippe. And so it came to passe, that they escaped all safe to lande.

  • Acts 27:29-32
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    29Then fearyng lest they shoulde haue fallen on some rocke, they caste foure anckers out of the sterne, and wisshed for the day.

    30And as the shypmen were about to flee out of the shippe, when they had let downe the boate into the sea, vnder a colour, as though they woulde haue cast anckers out of the foreshippe,

    31Paul sayde vnto the vnder captayne, and to the souldiers: Except these abide in the shippe, ye can not be safe.

    32Then the souldyers cut of the rope of the boate, and let it fall away.

  • Acts 27:6-22
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    6And there the vnder captayne founde a shippe of Alexandria redy, that sayled into Italie, and he put vs therin.

    7And whe we had sayled slowly many dayes, & scarce were come ouer agaynst Guydum, because ye wynde withstoode vs, we sayled harde by Candie, ouer agaynst Salmo,

    8And with much worke sayled beyonde it, and came vnto a place wich is called the Fayre hauens, nye whervnto was the citie of Lasea.

    9When much tyme was spent, & when saylyng was nowe ieopardus, because also that they had ouerlong fasted, Paul put them in remembraunce,

    10And sayde vnto them: Syrs, I perceaue that this vyage will be with hurt and much damage, not of the ladyng and shippe only, but also of our lyues.

    11Neuerthelesse, the vnder captayne beleued the gouernour and the maister of the shippe, more then those thynges which were spoken of Paul.

    12And because the hauen was not commodious to wynter in, many toke counsell to depart thence, yf by any meanes they myght attayne to Phenice, & there to winter, which is an hauen of Candie, and lyeth towarde the southwest and northwest wynde.

    13And when the south wynde blewe softly, they supposyng to obtayne their purpose, loosed vnto Asson, and sayled past Candie.

    14But not long after, there arose against their purpose, a flawe of wynde out of the northeast.

    15And when the shippe was caught, and coulde not resist the wynde, we let her go, and were dryuen with the weather.

    16But we were caryed into an Ile which is named Clauda, and had much worke to come by a boate,

    17Which they toke vp, and vsed helpe, and made fast the shippe, fearyng least they shoulde fall into the Syrtes: And so they let downe a vessel, & were caried.

    18The next day, when we were tossed with an exceading tempest, they lighted the shippe,

    19And the thirde day, we cast out with our owne handes, the tacklyng of the shippe.

    20And when neither ye sunne nor starres in many dayes appeared, and no small tempest lay vpon vs, all hope that we should be saued, was then taken away.

    21But after long abstinence, Paul stoode foorth in the middes of them, and sayde: Syrs, ye shoulde haue harkened to me, & not to haue loosed fro Candie, neither to haue brought vnto vs this harme and losse.

    22And nowe I exhort you to be of good chere: For there shalbe no losse of any mans lyfe among you, but of the shippe.

  • Acts 27:1-2
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    1And when it was cocluded, that we shoulde sayle into Italie, they delyuered both Paul, & certayne other prysoners, vnto one named Iulius, an vnder captayne of Augustus bande.

    2And we entred into a shippe of Adramyttium, & loosed from lande, appoynted to sayle by the coastes of Asia, one Aristarchus out of Macedonia, of the countrey of Thessalonia, tarying styll with vs.

  • Acts 27:24-27
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    24Saying: Feare not Paul, thou must be brought before Caesar. And lo, God hath geuen thee all them that sayle with thee.

    25Wherfore syrs be of good cheare: for I beleue God, that it shalbe euen as it was tolde me.

    26Howbeit, we must be cast into a certayne Ilande.

    27But when the fourtenth nyght was come, as we were saylyng in Adria, about mydnyght the shypmen deemed that there appeared some countrey vnto them:

  • Jonah 1:11-13
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    11And they saide vnto him: What shal we do vnto thee, that the sea may be calme vnto vs? For the sea wrought and was troublous.

    12And he saide vnto them, Take me, and cast me into the sea, and the sea shalbe calme vnto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is vpon you.

    13Neuerthelesse, the men assayed with rowing to bring the shippe to lande, but they could not, because the sea wrought, and was troublous against them.

  • Acts 24:23
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    23And he commaunded an vnder captayne to kepe Paul, and to let hym haue rest, and that he shoulde forbyd none of his acquayntaunce to minister vnto hym, or to come vnto hym.

  • Acts 21:31-32
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    31And as they went about to kyll hym, tydynges came vnto the hye captaine of the souldiers, that all Hierusalem was in an vprore.

    32Which immediatly toke souldiers, and vnder captaines, and ran downe vnto them: And when they sawe the vpper captaine and the souldiers, they left smytyng of Paul.

  • Acts 23:10-11
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    10And when there arose a great debate, the chiefe captayne, fearyng lest Paul shoulde haue ben pluckt asunder of the, comaunded the souldiers to go downe, and to take him from among them, and to bryng hym into the castle.

    11And the nyght folowyng, the Lorde stoode by hym, and sayde: Be of good cheare Paul, for as thou hast testified of me in Hierusalem, so must thou beare witnesse also at Rome.

  • Acts 28:16
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    16And when we came to Rome, ye vnder captayne delyuered the prysoners to the chiefe captayne of the hoast: But Paul was suffred to dwell by him selfe, with a souldyer that kept hym.

  • Acts 22:26
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    26When the Centurion hearde that, he went and tolde the vpper captaine, saying: Take heede what thou doest, for this man is a Romane.

  • Acts 23:23-24
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    23And he called vnto hym two vnder captaynes, saying: Make redy two hundred souldyers, to go to Cesarea, and horsmen threescore and ten, and spearemen two hundred, at the thirde houre of the nyght:

    24And delyuer them beastes, that they may set Paul on, and bryng hym safe vnto Felix the hye deputie.

  • Acts 16:27-28
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    27When the keper of the pryson waked out of his sleepe, and sawe the pryson doores open, he drewe out his sworde and woulde haue kylled hym selfe, supposyng that the prysoners had ben fled.

    28But Paul cryed with a loude voyce, saying: Do thy selfe no harme, for we are all here.

  • Acts 23:27
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    27This man was taken of the Iewes, and shoulde haue ben kylled of them: Then came I with souldeirs, & rescued hym, and perceaued that he was a Romane.

  • Acts 28:1
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    1And when they were scaped, then they knewe that the Ile was called Melite.

  • Acts 28:18
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    18Which when they had examined me, woulde haue let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.