Biblia the Byble, that is, the holy Scrypture of the Olde and New Testament, faithfully translated in to Englyshe.

The XXVII. Chapter.

[ A] WHan it was concluded that we shul¦de sayle in to Italy, they delyuered Paul and certayne other presoners to the vndercaptayne named Iulius, of the Emperours soudyers. And whan we were entred in to a shippe of Adramitium, to say¦le by Asia, we lowsed from londe. And there was with vs one * 1.1 Aristarchus out of Ma∣cedonia off Thessalonica, and on the nexte daye we came vnto Sidon. And Iulius in∣treated Paul curteously, and gaue him liber∣ty to go to his frendes, and to refresh him∣selfe. And from thence launched we, and say¦led harde by Cypers (because the wyndes were agaynst vs) and sayled ouer the see of Celicia and Pamphilia, and came to Myra in Lycia.

And there the vndercaptayne founde a shippe of Alexādria, ready to sayle in to Ita¦ly, and put vs therin. And whan we had sayled slowly, and in many dayes were scar∣cely come ouer agaynst Gnydon (for the wyn¦de with stode vs) we sayled by Candy nye vnto the cite off Salmo, and came scarcely beyonde it. Then came we to a place, which is called Goodhauen, nye where vnto was the cite Lasea. Now whan moch tyme was spent, and saylinge was now ioperdous, be∣cause that they also had fasted ouerlonge, Paul exhorted them, and sayde vnto them: Syrs, I se that this saylinge wyl be with hurte and moch dammage, not onely of the ladynge and of the shippe, but also of oure lyues.

Neuertheles y^e vndercaptayne beleued [ B] the gouernoure of the shippe and y^e master, more then it that was spoken of Paul. And for somoch as the hauē was not comodious to wynter in, the more parte off them toke councell to departe thēce, yf by eny meanes they might come to Phenices to wynter there, which is an hauen of Candy, towar∣de the Southwest and Northwest wynde. Whan the South wynde blewe, they sup∣posinge to haue had their purpose, lowsed vnto Asson, and sayled past all Candy.

But not longe after, there rose agaynst their purpose a flawe of wynde, which is called the Northeast. And whan the ship∣pe was caught, and coulde not resist y^e wyn¦de, we let her go, and draue with the wed∣der. But we came to an Ile named Clau∣dia, where we coulde scarce get a bote. Which they toke vp, and vsed helpe, and bounde it vnder harde to the shippe, fearin∣ge lest they shulde haue fallen in to the * 1.2 Syr¦tes, and let downe the vessell, and so were caried. And whan we had bydden a greate tēpest, on the nexte daye they made an out∣castinge. And on the thirde daye with oure awne handes we cast out the tacklynge of the shippe. But whā nether Sonne ner star¦res appeared in many dayes, and no small tempest laye vpon vs, all the hope of oure li¦fe was taken awaye.

And after longe abstinence, Paul stode [ C] forth in the myddes of thē, and sayde: Syrs, ye shulde haue herkened vnto me, and not to haue lowsed from Candy, and not to ha∣ue broughte vs this harme and losse. And now I exhorte you to be of good cheare, for there shal none of oure lyues perishe, but the shippe onely.

For this night stode by me the angell off God (whose I am, & whō I serue) & saide: Fea¦re not Paul, thou must be broughte before

the Emperoure. And lo, God hath geuen vn¦to the all thē that sayle with the. Wherfore syrs be of good cheare: for I beleue God, y^t it shal come so to passe, as it was tolde me. Howbeit we must be cast in to a certayne ylonde.

But whan the fourtenth night came, as we were caried in Adria aboute mydnight, y^e shipmen demed that there appeared some countre vnto them, and they cast out the lea¦de, and founde it twētye feddoms: and whā they were gone a litle farther, they cast out the leade agayne, and founde fyftene fed∣doms.

Then fearinge lest they shulde fall on so∣me [ D] rocke, they cast foure anckers out of the sterne, and wyszhed for the daye. Whan the shipmen were aboute to flye out of the ship¦pe, and let downe the bote in to the see, (vn∣der a coloure as though they wolde cast an∣kers out of the fore shippe) Paul sayde to y^e vnder captayne and to the soudyers: Excep¦te these byde in the shippe, ye can not be sa∣ued. Then the soudyers cut of the rope from the bote, and let it fall. And whan it began¦ne to be daye, Paul exhorted them all to ta¦ke meate, and sayde: To daye is the fourtene daye that ye haue taried and contynued fas¦tinge, and haue receaued nothinge: Wher∣fore I praye you to take meate, for youre health:* 1.3 for there shal not one heer fall from the heade of eny of you. And whan he had thus spoken, he toke bred, and * 1.4 gaue than∣kes to God before them all, and brake it, and begāne to eate. Then were they all of good cheare, and toke meate also. We were all to∣gether in the shippe two hundreth thre sco∣re and sixtene soules. And whan they had ea¦ten ynough, they lightened the shippe, and cast out the wheate in to the see.

[ E] Whan it was daye, they knewe not the londe. But they spyed an hauen with a ban¦ke, in to which they were mynded (yf it were possible) to thrust in the shippe. And whan they had takē vp the anckers, they commyt¦ted them selues to the see, and lowsed the rud¦der bandes, and hoyssed vp the mayne sayle to the wynde, and drue towarde londe. And whan we chaunced on a place which had the see on both the sydes, the shippe daszhed vpon it. And the fore parte abode fast vnmo¦ued, but the hynder parte brake thorow the violence of the wawes.

The soudyers councell was to kyll y^e pre∣soners, lest eny of them whan he had swym∣med out, shulde flye awaye. But the vn∣dercaptayne wyllinge to saue Paul, keped them from their purpose, and commaunded that they which coulde swymme, shulde cast them selues first in to the see, and escape vnto londe: and the other, some on bordes, some on broken pe••es of the shippe. And so it came to passe, that all the soules came sa¦fe vnto londe.

Notes

• * 1.1

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• * 1.2

  Syrtes are per∣lous pla¦ces ī the see.
• * 1.3

  Mat. 10. d Luc. 12. a
• * 1.4

  Mar. 6. c and 8. a Ioh. 6. a •• Tim 4. a