1. It was decided that we would sail for Italy. An army officer named Julius, who served in the emperor’s special army, was put in charge of guarding Paul and some other prisoners on the trip.
2. We got on a ship from the city of Adramyttium that was ready to sail to different places in Asia. Aristarchus, a man from Thessalonica in Macedonia, went with us.
3. The next day we came to the city of Sidon. Julius was very good to Paul and gave him freedom to go visit his friends there, who gave him whatever he needed.
4. We left that city and sailed close to the island of Cyprus because the wind was blowing against us.
5. We went across the sea by Cilicia and Pamphylia. Then we came to the city of Myra in Lycia.
6. There the army officer found a ship from the city of Alexandria that was going to Italy. So he put us on it.
7. We sailed slowly for many days. It was hard for us to reach the city of Cnidus because the wind was blowing against us. We could not go any farther that way, so we sailed by the south side of the island of Crete near Salmone.
8. We sailed along the coast, but the sailing was hard. Then we came to a place called Safe Harbors, near the city of Lasea.
9. We had lost much time, and it was now dangerous to sail, because it was already after the Jewish day of fasting. So Paul warned them,
10. “Men, I can see that there will be a lot of trouble on this trip. The ship, everything in it, and even our lives may be lost!”
11. But the captain and the owner of the ship did not agree with Paul. So the army officer accepted what they said instead of believing Paul.
12. Also, that harbor was not a good place for the ship to stay for the winter, so most of the men decided that we should leave there. They hoped we could reach Phoenix, where the ship could stay for the winter. Phoenix was a city on the island of Crete. It had a harbor that faced southwest and northwest.
13. Then a good wind began to blow from the south. The men on the ship thought, “This is the wind we wanted, and now we have it!” So they pulled up the anchor. We sailed very close to the island of Crete.
14. But then a very strong wind called the “Northeaster” came from across the island.
15. This wind took the ship and carried it away. The ship could not sail against the wind, so we stopped trying and let the wind blow us.