Acts 27:43

World English Bible (2000)

But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;

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  • Acts 27:3 : 3 The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.
  • Acts 27:11 : 11 But the centurion gave more heed to the master and to the owner of the ship than to those things which were spoken by Paul.
  • Acts 27:31 : 31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless these stay in the ship, you can't be saved."
  • 2 Cor 11:25 : 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
  • Prov 16:7 : 7 When a man's ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
  • Acts 23:10 : 10 When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.
  • Acts 23:24 : 24 He asked them to provide animals, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.

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  • Acts 27:38-42
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    38 When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

    39 When it was day, they didn't recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it.

    40 Casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.

    41 But coming to a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground. The bow struck and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves.

    42 The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.

  • Acts 27:44
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    44 and the rest should follow, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. So it happened that they all escaped safely to the land.

  • Acts 27:29-32
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    29 Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.

    30 As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,

    31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless these stay in the ship, you can't be saved."

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

  • Acts 27:6-22
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    6 There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy, and he put us on board.

    7 When we had sailed slowly many days, and had come with difficulty opposite Cnidus, the wind not allowing us further, we sailed under the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone.

    8 With difficulty sailing along it we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea.

    9 When much time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished them,

    10 and said to them, "Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives."

    11 But the centurion gave more heed to the master and to the owner of the ship than to those things which were spoken by Paul.

    12 Because the haven was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised going to sea from there, if by any means they could reach Phoenix, and winter there, which is a port of Crete, looking northeast and southeast.

    13 When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to shore.

    14 But before long, a stormy wind beat down from shore, which is called Euroclydon.

    15 When the ship was caught, and couldn't face the wind, we gave way to it, and were driven along.

    16 Running under the lee of a small island called Clauda, we were able, with difficulty, to secure the boat.

    17 After they had hoisted it up, they used cables to help reinforce the ship. Fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis sand bars, they lowered the sea anchor, and so were driven along.

    18 As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard.

    19 On the third day, they threw out the ship's tackle with their own hands.

    20 When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.

    21 When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle of them, and said, "Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, and have gotten this injury and loss.

    22 Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

  • Acts 27:1-2
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    1 When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.

    2 Embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea; Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.

  • Acts 27:24-27
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    24 saying, 'Don't be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.'

    25 Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.

    26 But we must run aground on a certain island."

    27 But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.

  • Jonah 1:11-13
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    11 Then they said to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?" For the sea grew more and more stormy.

    12 He said to them, "Take me up, and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that because of me this great storm is on you."

    13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them.

  • Acts 24:23
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    23 He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.

  • Acts 21:31-32
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    31 As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

    32 Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.

  • Acts 23:10-11
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    10 When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

    11 The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, "Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome."

  • Acts 28:16
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    16 When we entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him.

  • Acts 22:26
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    26 When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, "Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman!"

  • Acts 23:23-24
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    23 He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, "Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night."

    24 He asked them to provide animals, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.

  • Acts 16:27-28
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    27 The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

    28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, "Don't harm yourself, for we are all here!"

  • Acts 23:27
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    27 "This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them, when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.

  • Acts 28:1
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    1 When we had escaped, then they learned that the island was called Malta.

  • Acts 28:18
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    18 who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me.