MODERN LITERAL VERSION

27:1 And when it was decided that we should sail toward Italy, they gave Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Emperor's cohort.
27:2 And having stepped on board, in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to the places throughout the coast of Asia, we set-sail, also being with us was Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica.
27:3 And the next-day we brought the ship into Sidon and Julius treated Paul humanely and permitted him to go to his friends and be cared for.
27:4 And setting-sail to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were adverse.
27:5 And when we had sailed through the sea against Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.
27:6 And the centurion found a ship from Alexandria there sailing to Italy, and he has us step onto it.
27:7 And voyaging slowly for a considerable number of days and having happened to be against Cnidus, with difficulty, the wind was not permitting us to land. We sailed under the lee of Crete, over against Salmone;
27:8 and coasting-along it with difficulty, we came to a certain place called Good Harbors; which was near the city of Lasea.

27:9 And when a considerable amount of time had elapsed and the voyage was already dangerous, because the Fast had already passed, Paul advised them,
27:10 and said to them, Men, I view that the voyage is about to be with disaster and much damage, not only of the load and the ship, but also of our lives.
27:11 But the centurion was persuaded by the helmsman and by the ship-owner, rather than by the things spoken by Paul.
27:12 But the harbor being* unfit for a wintering, most counseled to set-sail to sea from there, if somehow they might arrive and winter near Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, looking down northwest and down southwest.
27:13 And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had taken-hold of their purpose, they lifted the anchor up and coasted-along, closer to Crete.
27:14 But not long after, a typhoon wind, called Euroclydon, was cast against it;
27:15 and when the ship was seized and it was not able to face the wind, we gave way to it, and were carried along by the wind.
27:16 And running under the lee of an isle called Clauda, with difficulty, we were strong-enough to become skippers of the boat;
27:17 and when they had lifted it up, they used cables, undergirding the ship, and, fearing lest they might fall upon the sandbars of Syrtis, they lowered the tackling and so we were carried along.
27:18 But being extremely storm-tossed, the following- day they made* a jettison of the cargo;
27:19 and the third day they tossed out the tackling of the ship with their own hands.
27:20 And neither sun nor stars appearing upon us for many days and not just a little storm lay upon us, all hope that we might be saved was furthermore taken away.
27:21 And when they had been* long without food, then Paul stood forth in the midst of them and said, O men, you* indeed ought to have been obedient to me and not have set-sail from Crete and then to have gained this disaster and damage.
27:22 And now, I am advising you* to be cheerful; for* there will be no termination of life from among you*, however of the ship, yes.
27:23 For* there stood beside me this night a messenger of the God, whose I am, whom I also am giving-divine service to,
27:24 saying, Do not fear, Paul; it is essential for you to stand before Caesar and behold, God has granted to you all those who are sailing with you.
27:25 Hence, lords, be cheerful; for* I believe God, that it will be so according to the manner it has been spoken to me.
27:26 But it is essential for us to fall onto a certain island.

27:27 But when it became the fourteenth night, as we were carried to and fro in the Adriatic Sea, in the middle of the night the sailors perceived some country was approaching them.
27:28 And having sounded, they found twenty fathoms, and after a little bit of an interval of time, having sounded again, they found fifteen fathoms.
27:29 And fearing lest we might fall into rough places, they tossed the four anchors from the stern and began praying for it to become day.
27:30 But the sailors seeking to escape out of the ship and having lowered the boat into the sea in pretext, as though they were about to heave out anchors from the prow,
27:31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, If these sailors do not remain in the ship, you* are not able to be saved.
27:32 Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat and let her fall off.
27:33 And till it was about to become day, Paul encouraged them all to take some nourishment, saying, Today is the fourteenth day that you* were expecting to arrive and that you* are continuing without food, having taken nothing to eat.
27:34 Hence I am encouraging you* to take some nourishment; for* this is* for your* salvation; for* not a hair will fall from head of one of you.
27:35 And when he had said these things and had taken bread, he gave-thanks to God before all, and he broke it and began to eat.
27:36 When all became cheerful, they themselves also took nourishment.
27:37 And we were in the ship, all two hundred and seventy six souls.
27:38 And being satisfied with nourishment, they lightened the ship, casting the grain out into the sea.
{Nov. 1, 61 AD. Shipwreck on Malta.}

27:39 And when it became day, they did not recognize the land, but they perceived a certain bay with a beach and they counseled if they could drive the ship upon it.
27:40 And taking off the couplings to the anchors, they permitted them to fall in the sea, at the same time laxing the rudders' couplings, and lifting up the foresail to the blowing wind, they headed toward the beach.
27:41 But falling into a place at the intersection of two seas, they beached the cargo-ship, and indeed the prow stuck and remained unshakable, but the stern began to be dissolved by the violence of the waves.
27:42 And the soldiers' counsel happened to be that* they should kill the prisoners, (anyone of them might swim away and escape).
27:43 But the centurion, intending to save Paul, did forbid them from their will, and commanded those who were able to swim to toss themselves over first and go out to land;
27:44 and the rest, some upon planks and some upon other things from the ship. And so it happened, all were saved upon the land.
{Nov. - Feb. 62 AD. Malta.}