Acts 27:37

Geneva Bible (1560)

Nowe we were in the ship in all two hundreth three score and sixteene soules.

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 2:41 : 41 Then they that gladly receiued his word, were baptized: and the same day there were added to the Church about three thousand soules.
  • Acts 7:14 : 14 Then sent Ioseph and caused his father to be brought, and all his kindred, euen threescore and fifteene soules.
  • Rom 13:1 : 1 Let euery soule be subiect vnto the higher powers: for there is no power but of God: and the powers that be, are ordeined of God.
  • 1 Pet 3:20 : 20 Which were in time passed disobedient, when once the long suffering of God abode in the dayes of Noe, while the Arke was preparing, wherein fewe, that is, eight soules were saued in the water.

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  • 79%

    38And whe they had eaten ynough, they lightened the ship, & cast out the wheat into the sea.

    39And when it was day, they knewe not the countrey, but they spied a certaine creeke with a banke, into the which they were minded (if it were possible) to thrust in the ship.

    40So when they had taken vp the ankers, they committed the ship vnto the sea, and loosed the rudder bonds, and hoised vp the maine saile to the winde, and drewe to the shore.

    41And when they fell into a place, where two seas met, they thrust in the ship: and the forepart stucke fast, and could not be moued, but the hinderpart was broken with the violence of the waues.

    42Then the souldiers counsell was to kill the prisoners, least any of them, when he had swomme out, should flee away.

    43But the Centurion willing to saue Paul, stayed them from this counsell, and commaunded that they that coulde swimme, shoulde cast them selues first into the sea, and goe out to land:

    44And the other, some on boardes, and some on certaine pieces of the ship: and so it came to passe that they came all safe to land.

  • 36Then were they all of good courage, and they also tooke meate.

  • Acts 27:13-22
    10 verses
    74%

    13And when the Southerne winde blew softly, they supposing to atteine their purpose, loosed neerer, and sailed by Candie.

    14But anon after, there arose by it a stormy winde called Euroclydon.

    15And when the ship was caught, and could not resist the winde, we let her goe, and were caried away.

    16And we ran vnder a litle Yle named Clauda, and had much a doe to get the boat.

    17Which they tooke vp and vsed all helpe, vndergirding the ship, fearing least they should haue fallen into Syrtes, and they strake saile, and so were caried.

    18The next day when we were tossed with an exceeding tempest, they lightened the ship.

    19And the third day we cast out with our owne hands the tackling of the ship.

    20And when neither 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 abstinece, Paul stood forth in the mids of them, and said, Syrs, ye should haue hearkened to me, and not haue loosed from Candie: so should ye haue gained this hurt and losse.

    22But now I exhort you to be of good courage: for there shalbe no losse of any mans life among you, saue of the ship onely.

  • 74%

    24Saying, Feare not, Paul: for thou must be brought before Cesar: and lo, God hath giuen vnto thee freely all that sayle with thee.

    25Wherefore, sirs, be of good courage: for I beleeue God, that it shall be so as it hath bene tolde me.

    26Howbeit, we must be cast into a certaine Iland.

    27And when ye fourteenth night was come, as we were caried to and fro in the Adriaticall sea about midnight, the shipmen deemed that some countrey approched vnto them,

    28And sounded, & found it twentie fathoms: and when they had gone a litle further, they sounded againe, and found fifteene fathoms.

    29Then fearing least they should haue fallen into some rough places, they cast foure ancres out of the sterne, and wished that the day were come.

    30Nowe as the mariners were about to flee out of the ship, and had let downe the boat into the sea vnder a colour as though they would haue cast ankers out of the foreship,

    31Paul sayde vnto the Centurion and the souldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye can not be safe.

    32Then the souldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let it fall away.

  • Acts 27:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6And there the Centurion found a ship of Alexandria, sayling into Italie, and put vs therein.

    7And when we had sayled slowly many dayes, and scarce were come against Gnidum, because the winde suffered vs not, we sailed hard by Candie, neere to Salmone,

  • Acts 21:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1And as we launched forth, and were departed from them, we came with a straight course vnto Coos, and the day following vnto the Rhodes, and from thence vnto Patara.

    2And we found a ship that went ouer vnto Phenice, and went aboard, and set forth.

  • Mark 4:36-37
    2 verses
    70%

    36And they left the multitude, and tooke him as he was in the shippe, and there were also with him other little shippes.

    37And there arose a great storme of winde, and the waues dashed into the shippe, so that it was now full.

  • 6Then when we had embraced one another, we tooke ship, and they returned home.

  • 69%

    11Then saide they vnto him, What shall we doe vnto thee, that the sea may be calme vnto vs? (for the sea wrought and was troublous)

    12And he said vnto them, Take me, and cast me into the sea: so shall the sea be calme vnto you: for I knowe that for my sake this great tempest is vpon you.

    13Neuerthelesse, the men rowed to bring it to the lande, but they coulde not: for the sea wrought, and was troublous against them.

  • 69%

    10And sayde vnto them, Syrs, I see that this voiage will be with hurt & much damage, not of the lading and ship onely, but also of our liues.

    11Neuertheles the Centurion beleeued rather the gouernour and the master of the ship, then those things which were spoken of Paul.

  • Gen 46:26-27
    2 verses
    68%

    26Al the soules, that came with Iaakob into Egypt, which came out of his loynes (beside Iaakobs sonnes wiues) were in the whole, three score and sixe soules.

    27Also the sonnes of Ioseph, which were borne him in Egypt, were two soules: so that al the soules of the house of Iaakob, which came into Egypt, are seuentie.

  • 11Nowe after three moneths we departed in a shippe of Alexandria, which had wintred in the Yle, whose badge was Castor and Pollux.

  • 19And when they had rowed about fiue and twentie, or thirtie furlongs, they sawe Iesus walking on the sea, and drawing neere vnto the ship: so they were afraide.

  • 6And we sailed forth from Philippi, after the dayes of vnleauened bread, & came vnto them to Troas in fiue dayes, where we abode seuen dayes.

  • 2And we entred into a ship of Adramyttium purposing to saile by the coastes of Asia, and launched foorth, and had Aristarchus of Macedonia, a Thessalonian, with vs.

  • 21Then willingly they receiued him into the ship, and the ship was by and by at the lande, whither they went.

  • 66All the Congregation together was two & fourtie thousand, three hundreth and threescore,

  • 11Then went we forth from Troas, and with a straight course came to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis,

  • 7And they beckened to their parteners, which were in the other ship, that they shoulde come and helpe them, who came then, and filled both the ships, that they did sinke.

  • 24And beholde, there arose a great tempest in the sea, so that the ship was couered with waues: but he was a sleepe.