Acts 27:1;28:15

Acts Outline:

• Peter and the Beginnings of the Church in the Holy Land (chs. 1-12)
  • "Throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria" (1:1 -- 9:31; see 9:31 and note)
    • Introduction (1:1-2)
    • Christ's resurrection ministry (1:3-11)
    • The period of waiting for the Holy Spirit (1:12-26)
    • The filling with the Spirit (ch. 2)
    • The healing of the lame man and the resultant arrest of Peter and John (3:1;4:31)
    • The community of goods (4:32;5:11)
    • The arrest of the 12 apostles (5:12-42)
    • The choice of the Seven (6:1-7)
    • Stephen's arrest and martyrdom (6:8;7:60)
    • The scattering of the Jerusalem believers (8:1-4)
    • Philip's ministry (8:5-40)
      • In Samaria (8:5-25)
      • To the Ethiopian eunuch (8:26-40)
    • Saul's conversion (9:1-31)
  • "As far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch" (9:32;12:25;11:19;)
    • Peter's ministry on the Mediterranean coast (9:32;11:18)
      • To Aeneas and Dorcas (9:32-43)
      • To Cornelius (10:1;11:18)
    • The new Gentile church in Antioch (11:19-30)
    • Herod's persecution of the church and his subsequent death (ch. 12)
• Paul and the Expansion of the Church from Antioch to Rome (chs. 13-28)
  • "Throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia" (13:1 -- 15:35; see 16:6 and note)
    • Paul's first missionary journey (chs. 13-14)
    • The Jerusalem conference (15:1-35)
  • "Over to Macedonia" (15:36;21:16;16:9;)
    • Paul's second missionary journey (15:36;18:22)
    • Paul's third missionary journey (18:23;21:16)
  • "To Rome" (21:17;28:31;28:14;)
    • Paul's imprisonment in Jerusalem (21:17;23:35)
      • Arrest (21:17;22:29)
      • Trial before the Sanhedrin (22:30;23:11)
      • Transfer to Caesarea (23:12-35)
    • Paul's imprisonment in Caesarea (chs. 24-26)
      • Trial before Felix (ch. 24)
      • Trial before Festus (25:1-12)
      • Hearing before Festus and Agrippa (25:13;26:32)
    • Voyage to Rome (27:1;28:15)
    • Two years under house arrest in Rome (28:16-31)

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From the NIV Study Bible, Introductions to the Books of the Bible, Acts
Copyright 2002 © Zondervan. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

ACTS 27 NLT

1 When the time came, we set sail for Italy. Paul and several other prisoners were placed in the custody of a Roman officer named Julius, a captain of the Imperial Regiment. 

2 Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was also with us. We left on a ship whose home port was Adramyttium on the northwest coast of the province of Asia; it was scheduled to make several stops at ports along the coast of the province. 

3 The next day when we docked at Sidon, Julius was very kind to Paul and let him go ashore to visit with friends so they could provide for his needs. 

4 Putting out to sea from there, we encountered strong headwinds that made it difficult to keep the ship on course, so we sailed north of Cyprus between the island and the mainland.

5 Keeping to the open sea, we passed along the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, landing at Myra, in the province of Lycia. 

6 There the commanding officer found an Egyptian ship from Alexandria that was bound for Italy, and he put us on board. 

7 We had several days of slow sailing, and after great difficulty we finally neared Cnidus. But the wind was against us, so we sailed across to Crete and along the sheltered coast of the island, past the cape of Salmone. 

8 We struggled along the coast with great difficulty and finally arrived at Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea. 

9 We had lost a lot of time. The weather was becoming dangerous for sea travel because it was so late in the fall, and Paul spoke to the ship’s officers about it. 

10 “Men,” he said, “I believe there is trouble ahead if we go on—shipwreck, loss of cargo, and danger to our lives as well.” 

11 But the officer in charge of the prisoners listened more to the ship’s captain and the owner than to Paul. 

12 And since Fair Havens was an exposed harbor—a poor place to spend the winter—most of the crew wanted to go on to Phoenix, farther up the coast of Crete, and spend the winter there. Phoenix was a good harbor with only a southwest and northwest exposure. 

13 When a light wind began blowing from the south, the sailors thought they could make it. So they pulled up anchor and sailed close to the shore of Crete. 

14 But the weather changed abruptly, and a wind of typhoon strength (called a “northeaster”) burst across the island and blew us out to sea. 

15 The sailors couldn’t turn the ship into the wind, so they gave up and let it run before the gale.