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which is
an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.
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And when the south
wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained
their
purpose, loosing
thence,
they sailed close
by Crete.
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But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.
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And
when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let
her
drive.
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And running
under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat:
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Which
when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall
into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.
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And we being exceedingly tossed with a
tempest, the next
day
they lightened the ship;
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And the third
day
we cast out with our own hands
the tackling of the ship.
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And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small
tempest lay on
us,
all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.
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But after long abstinence
Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not
have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.
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And now I exhort you to be of
good cheer: for there shall be no loss of
any man’s
life among you, but of the ship.
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For there
stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
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Saying, Fear not, Paul;
thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
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Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.
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Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.
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But when the fourteenth night was come, as
we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to
some country;
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And sounded, and found
it
twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further,
they sounded again, and found
it
fifteen fathoms.
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Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon
rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
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And as the shipmen were
about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though
they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
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Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers,
Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.
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Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat,
and let her fall off.
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And while the day was coming on, Paul besought
them
all to take meat, saying,
This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
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Wherefore I pray you to take
some
meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall
from the head of any of you.
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And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to
God in presence of them all: and when he had broken
it,
he began to eat.
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Then were they all of
good cheer, and they also took
some
meat.
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And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore
and sixteen souls.
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And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the
wheat into the sea.
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And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain
creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
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And
when they had taken up the anchors, they committed
themselves
unto the sea, and loosed the rudder
bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.
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And falling into a place
where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable,
but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
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And the soldiers’ counsel was to
kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
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But the centurion, willing to
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