Acts 27:37
(We were in all two hundred seventy-six persons on the ship.)
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- Acts 2:41 : 41 So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added.
- Acts 7:14 : 14 So Joseph sent a message and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people in all.
- Rom 13:1 : 1 Submission to Civil Government Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except by God’s appointment, and the authorities that exist have been instituted by God.
- 1 Pet 3:20 : 20 after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.
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- Acts 27:38-447 verses79%
38When they had eaten enough to be satisfied, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.
39Paul is Shipwrecked When day came, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.
40So they slipped the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the linkage that bound the steering oars together. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and steered toward the beach.
41But they encountered a patch of crosscurrents and ran the ship aground; the bow stuck fast and could not be moved, but the stern was being broken up by the force of the waves.
42Now the soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners so that none of them would escape by swimming away.
43But the centurion, wanting to save Paul’s life, prevented them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land,
44and the rest were to follow, some on planks and some on pieces of the ship. And in this way all were brought safely to land.
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36So all of them were encouraged and took food themselves.
- Acts 27:13-2210 verses74%
13When a gentle south wind sprang up, they thought they could carry out their purpose, so they weighed anchor and sailed close along the coast of Crete.
14Not long after this, a hurricane-force wind called the northeaster blew down from the island.
15When the ship was caught in it and could not head into the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.
16As we ran under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we were able with difficulty to get the ship’s boat under control.
17After the crew had hoisted it aboard, they used supports to undergird the ship. Fearing they would run aground on the Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor, thus letting themselves be driven along.
18The next day, because we were violently battered by the storm, they began throwing the cargo overboard,
19and on the third day they threw the ship’s gear overboard with their own hands.
20When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and a violent storm continued to batter us, we finally abandoned all hope of being saved.
21Since many of them had no desire to eat, Paul stood up among them and said,“Men, you should have listened to me and not put out to sea from Crete, thus avoiding this damage and loss.
22And now I advise you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only the ship will be lost.
- Acts 27:24-329 verses74%
24and said,‘Do not be afraid, Paul! You must stand before Caesar, and God has graciously granted you the safety of all who are sailing with you.’
25Therefore keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will be just as I have been told.
26But we must run aground on some island.”
27When the fourteenth night had come, while we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected they were approaching some land.
28They took soundings and found the water was twenty fathoms deep; when they had sailed a little farther they took soundings again and found it was fifteen fathoms deep.
29Because they were afraid that we would run aground on the rocky coast, they threw out four anchors from the stern and wished for day to appear.
30Then when the sailors tried to escape from the ship and were lowering the ship’s boat into the sea, pretending that they were going to put out anchors from the bow,
31Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers,“Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved.”
32Then the soldiers cut the ropes of the ship’s boat and let it drift away.
- Acts 27:6-72 verses72%
6There the centurion found a ship from Alexandria sailing for Italy, and he put us aboard it.
7We sailed slowly for many days and arrived with difficulty off Cnidus. Because the wind prevented us from going any farther, we sailed under the lee of Crete off Salmone.
- Acts 21:1-22 verses71%
1Paul’s Journey to Jerusalem After we tore ourselves away from them, we put out to sea, and sailing a straight course, we came to Cos, on the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.
2We found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, went aboard, and put out to sea.
- Mark 4:36-372 verses70%
36So after leaving the crowd, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat, and other boats were with him.
37Now a great windstorm developed and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was nearly swamped.
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6we said farewell to one another. Then we went aboard the ship, and they returned to their own homes.
- Jonah 1:11-133 verses69%
11Because the storm was growing worse and worse, they said to him,“What should we do to you so that the sea will calm down for us?”
12He said to them,“Pick me up and throw me into the sea so that the sea will calm down for you, because I know it’s my fault you are in this severe storm.”
13Instead, they tried to row back to land, but they were not able to do so because the storm kept growing worse and worse.
- Acts 27:10-112 verses69%
10“Men, I can see the voyage is going to end in disaster and great loss not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.”
11But the centurion was more convinced by the captain and the ship’s owner than by what Paul said.
- Gen 46:26-272 verses68%
26All the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt with him were sixty-six in number.(This number does not include the wives of Jacob’s sons.)
27Counting the two sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, all the people of the household of Jacob who were in Egypt numbered seventy.
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11Paul Finally Reaches Rome After three months we put out to sea in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered at the island and had the“Heavenly Twins” as its figurehead.
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19Then, when they had rowed about three or four miles, they caught sight of Jesus walking on the lake, approaching the boat, and they were frightened.
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6We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and within five days we came to the others in Troas, where we stayed for seven days.
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2We went on board a ship from Adramyttium that was about to sail to various ports along the coast of the province of Asia and put out to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica.
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21Then they wanted to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the land where they had been heading.
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66The entire group numbered 42,360.
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11Arrival at Philippi We put out to sea from Troas and sailed a straight course to Samothrace, the next day to Neapolis,
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7So they motioned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both boats, so that they were about to sink.
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24And a great storm developed on the sea so that the waves began to swamp the boat. But he was asleep.