39 [a]And when it was day, they knew not the country, but they spied a certain [b]creek with a bank, into the which they were minded (if it were possible) to thrust in the ship.

40 So when they had taken up the anchors, they committed the ship unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bonds, and hoisted up the main sail to the wind, and drew to the shore.

41 And when they fell into a place, where [c]two seas met, they thrust in the ship: and the forepart stuck fast, and could not be moved, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 27:39 Then are tempests most of all to be feared and looked for, when the port or haven is nearest.
  2. Acts 27:39 A creek is a sea within land, as the Adriatic Sea, and the Persian Sea.
  3. Acts 27:41 So is Isthmus called, because the sea toucheth it on both sides.

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