Acts 27:28 in context
Acts 27:25–31
Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.
But we must run aground on a certain island.”
But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.
Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.
As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,
Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, “Unless these stay in the ship, you can’t be saved.”
Source notes
Notes from World English Bible Updated
- 20 fathoms = 120 feet = 36.6 meters
- 15 fathoms = 90 feet = 27.4 meters
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