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¹ And when it was cocluded, that we shoulde sayle into Italie, they delyuered both Paul, & certayne other prysoners, vnto one named Iulius, an vnder captayne of Augustus bande.² And we entred into a shippe of Adramyttium, & loosed from lande, appoynted to sayle by the coastes of Asia, one Aristarchus out of Macedonia, of the countrey of Thessalonia, tarying styll with vs.³ And the next day we came to Sidon: And Iulius curteouslye entreated Paul, and gaue hym libertie to go vnto his friendes, and to refreshe hym selfe.⁴ And when we had launched from thence, we sayled harde by Cypers, because the wyndes were contrarye.⁵ And when we had sayled ouer the sea of Cilicia, and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, which is in Lycia.⁶ And there the vnder captayne founde a shippe of Alexandria redy, that sayled into Italie, and he put vs therin.⁷ And whe we had sayled slowly many dayes, & scarce were come ouer agaynst Guydum, because ye wynde withstoode vs, we sayled harde by Candie, ouer agaynst Salmo,⁸ And with much worke sayled beyonde it, and came vnto a place wich is called the Fayre hauens, nye whervnto was the citie of Lasea.⁹ When much tyme was spent, & when saylyng was nowe ieopardus, because also that they had ouerlong fasted, Paul put them in remembraunce,¹⁰ And sayde vnto them: Syrs, I perceaue that this vyage will be with hurt and much damage, not of the ladyng and shippe only, but also of our lyues.¹¹ Neuerthelesse, the vnder captayne beleued the gouernour and the maister of the shippe, more then those thynges which were spoken of Paul.

¹² And because the hauen was not commodious to wynter in, many toke counsell to depart thence, yf by any meanes they myght attayne to Phenice, & there to winter, which is an hauen of Candie, and lyeth towarde the southwest and northwest wynde.¹³ And when the south wynde blewe softly, they supposyng to obtayne their purpose, loosed vnto Asson, and sayled past Candie.¹⁴ But not long after, there arose against their purpose, a flawe of wynde out of the northeast.¹⁵ And when the shippe was caught, and coulde not resist the wynde, we let her go, and were dryuen with the weather.¹⁶ But we were caryed into an Ile which is named Clauda, and had much worke to come by a boate,¹⁷ Which they toke vp, and vsed helpe, and made fast the shippe, fearyng least they shoulde fall into the Syrtes: And so they let downe a vessel, & were caried.¹⁸ The next day, when we were tossed with an exceading tempest, they lighted the shippe,¹⁹ And the thirde day, we cast out with our owne handes, the tacklyng of the shippe.²⁰ And when neither ye sunne nor starres in many dayes appeared, and no small tempest lay vpon vs, all hope that we should be saued, was then taken away.

²¹ But after long abstinence, Paul stoode foorth in the middes of them, and sayde: Syrs, ye shoulde haue harkened to me, & not to haue loosed fro Candie, neither to haue brought vnto vs this harme and losse.²² And nowe I exhort you to be of good chere: For there shalbe no losse of any mans lyfe among you, but of the shippe.²³ For there stoode by me this nyght, the Angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serue,²⁴ Saying: Feare not Paul, thou must be brought before Caesar. And lo, God hath geuen thee all them that sayle with thee.²⁵ Wherfore syrs be of good cheare: for I beleue God, that it shalbe euen as it was tolde me.²⁶ Howbeit, we must be cast into a certayne Ilande.²⁷ But when the fourtenth nyght was come, as we were saylyng in Adria, about mydnyght the shypmen deemed that there appeared some countrey vnto them:²⁸ And sounded, and founde it twentie faddomes. And when they had gone a litle further, they sounded agayne, and founde it fyfteene faddomes.²⁹ Then fearyng lest they shoulde haue fallen on some rocke, they caste foure anckers out of the sterne, and wisshed for the day.³⁰ And as the shypmen were about to flee out of the shippe, when they had let downe the boate into the sea, vnder a colour, as though they woulde haue cast anckers out of the foreshippe,³¹ Paul sayde vnto the vnder captayne, and to the souldiers: Except these abide in the shippe, ye can not be safe.³² Then the souldyers cut of the rope of the boate, and let it fall away.³³ And when the day began to appeare, Paul besought them all to take meate, saying: This is the foureteenth day, that ye haue taryed & continued fasting, receauyng nothyng at all.³⁴ Wherfore, I pray you to take meate, for this no doubt is for your health: for there shall not an heere fall from the head of any of you.³⁵ And when he had thus spoken, he toke bread, and gaue thankes to God in presence of them all: And when he had broken it, he began to eate.³⁶ Then were they all of good cheare, and they also toke meate.³⁷ And we were altogether in the shippe, two hudred threescore & sixteene soules.³⁸ And when they had eaten enough, they lyghted the shippe, and cast out the wheate into the sea.³⁹ And when it was day, they knewe not the lande: but they spyed a certayne hauen with a banke, into the which they were mynded, yf it were possible, to thrust in the shippe.⁴⁰ And when they had taken vp the anckers, they committed [themselues] vnto the sea, and loosed the rudder bondes, and hoyssed vp the mayne sayle to the wynde, and drewe to lande.⁴¹ And when they fell into a place which had the sea on both sydes, they thrust in the shippe: And the forepart stucke fast & moued not, but the hynder part brake with the violence of the waues.⁴² And the souldiers counsel was to kyll the prysoners, lest any of them, when he had swomme out, should runne away.⁴³ But the vnder captayne wyllyng to saue Paul, kept the from their purpose, & commaunded that they which coulde swymme, shoulde cast them selues first into the sea, and scape to lande:⁴⁴ And the other, some on boordes, and some on broke peeces of the shippe. And so it came to passe, that they escaped all safe to lande.