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Putting to sea from there, we encountered headwinds that made it difficult to keep the ship on course, so we sailed north of Cyprus between the island and the mainland[a] and passed along the coast of the provinces of Cilicia and Pamphylia, landing at Myra, in the province of Lycia. There our officer found an Egyptian ship from Alexandria, bound for Italy, and put us aboard.

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  1. Acts 27:4 so we sailed north of Cyprus between the island and the mainland, implied; literally, “we sailed under the lee of Cyprus.” Narratives of that period interpret this as meaning what is indicated in the paraphrase above.

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