26 However, we must run aground on a certain island.”(A)

27 When the fourteenth night came, we were drifting in the Adriatic Sea,[a] and in the middle of the night the sailors thought they were approaching land.[b] 28 They took a sounding and found it to be 120 feet[c] deep; when they had sailed a little farther and sounded again, they found it to be 90 feet[d] deep.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 27:27 Part of the northern Mediterranean Sea; not the modern Adriatic Sea east of Italy
  2. Acts 27:27 Lit thought there was land approaching them
  3. Acts 27:28 Lit 20 fathoms
  4. Acts 27:28 Lit 15 fathoms

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