Acts 27:6
New International Version
There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us on board.

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

English Standard Version
There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy and put us on board.

Berean Standard Bible
There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us on board.

Berean Literal Bible
And there the centurion, having found a ship of Alexandria sailing to Italy, placed us into it.

King James Bible
And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy; and he put us therein.

New King James Version
There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing to Italy, and he put us on board.

New American Standard Bible
There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy, and he put us aboard it.

NASB 1995
There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy, and he put us aboard it.

NASB 1977
And there the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy, and he put us aboard it.

Legacy Standard Bible
There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy, and he put us aboard it.

Amplified Bible
There the centurion [Julius] found an Alexandrian ship [a grain ship of the Roman fleet] sailing for Italy, and he put us aboard it.

Christian Standard Bible
There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us on board.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us on board.

American Standard Version
And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy; and he put us therein.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the Centurion found a ship there from Alexandria that was going to Italia and he put us on it.

Contemporary English Version
There the army captain found a ship from Alexandria that was going to Italy. So he ordered us to board that ship.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there the centurion finding a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy, removed us into it.

English Revised Version
And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy; and he put us therein.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
In Myra the officer found a ship from Alexandria that was on its way to Italy and put us on it.

Good News Translation
There the officer found a ship from Alexandria that was going to sail for Italy, so he put us aboard.

International Standard Version
There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship bound for Italy and put us on it.

Literal Standard Version
and there the centurion having found a ship of Alexandria, sailing to Italy, put us into it,

Majority Standard Bible
There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us on board.

New American Bible
There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship that was sailing to Italy and put us on board.

NET Bible
There the centurion found a ship from Alexandria sailing for Italy, and he put us aboard it.

New Revised Standard Version
There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship bound for Italy and put us on board.

New Heart English Bible
There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy, and he put us on board.

Webster's Bible Translation
And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy; and he put us therein.

Weymouth New Testament
There Julius found an Alexandrian ship bound for Italy, and put us on board of her.

World English Bible
There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy, and he put us on board.

Young's Literal Translation
and there the centurion having found a ship of Alexandria, sailing to Italy, did put us into it,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Paul Sails for Rome
5And when we had sailed across the open sea off the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia. 6There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us on board. 7After sailing slowly for many days, we arrived off Cnidus. When the wind impeded us, we sailed to the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone.…

Cross References
Acts 18:2
There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to visit them,

Acts 27:1
When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion named Julius, who belonged to the Imperial Regiment.

Acts 28:11
After three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered in the island. It had the Twin Brothers as a figurehead.


Treasury of Scripture

And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy; and he put us therein.

the centurion.

Acts 27:1
And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus' band.

Alexandria.

Acts 6:9
Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.

Acts 18:24
And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.

Acts 28:11
And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.

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Acts 27
1. Paul shipping toward Rome,
10. foretells of the danger of the voyage,
11. but is not believed.
14. They are tossed to and fro by a storm;
41. and suffer shipwreck;
44. yet all come safe to land.














(6) A ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy.--A glance at the map will show that the ship, which was probably one of those engaged in the corn-trade between Egypt and Rome, must have been driven out of its course. This may have been owing to the prevalence of the westerly winds already noticed. The Alexandrian traders, however, as a rule, avoided taking the course along the coast of Africa, through fear of the quicksands of the great Syrtis, and took that between Crete and the Peloponnesus. The presence of this merchantship led to a change of plan. It seemed an easier and more expeditious route to go straight to Rome, instead of landing at Mysia, and then taking another ship to Macedonia in order to journey by land to the coast of the Adriatic. A local inscription describes Myra as a "horrea," or store-house of corn (Lewin's St. Paul, ii. p. 187), and the Alexandrian ship may therefore have gone thither to discharge part of its cargo. It has been assumed, but on insufficient grounds, that Aristarchus here parted from St. Paul, and went on in the Adramyttium ship.

Verse 6. - For, for into, A.V. He put us therein; ἐνεβίβασεν, only here in the New Testament, and once in the LXX. (Proverbs 4:11). It is a nautical term for embarking men on board ship (Thucydides, Xenophon, Lucian, etc.), and is also used by medical writers for "placing patients in a bath." The corn-vessel (naris frumentaria) from Alexandria to Italy may very probably have been driven out of its direct course by the same contrary winds which forced St. Paul to sail under Cyprus (see Howson, vol. it. p. 325, note 5), or commercial objects may have brought it to Lycia, to carry Asiatic merchandize to Rome, in addition to its cargo of Egyptian wheat - possibly "timber from the woody mountains of Lycia" (Lewin, vol. it. p. 188, note).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
There
Κἀκεῖ (Kakei)
Conjunction
Strong's 2546: And there, and yonder, there also. From kai and ekei; likewise in that place.

the
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

centurion
ἑκατοντάρχης (hekatontarchēs)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 1543: A centurion of the Roman army. Or hekatontarchos hek-at-on'-tar-khos; from hekaton and archo; the captain of one hundred men.

found
εὑρὼν (heurōn)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2147: A prolonged form of a primary heuro, which heureo is used for it in all the tenses except the present and imperfect to find.

an Alexandrian
Ἀλεξανδρῖνον (Alexandrinon)
Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 222: Alexandrian, belonging to Alexandria in Egypt. From the same as Alexandreus; Alexandrine, or belonging to Alexandria.

ship
πλοῖον (ploion)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 4143: A ship, vessel, boat. From pleo; a sailer, i.e. Vessel.

sailing
πλέον (pleon)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 4126: Another form for pleuo; which is used as an alternate in certain tenses; probably a form of pluno; to pass in a vessel.

for
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

Italy,
Ἰταλίαν (Italian)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2482: Italy. Probably of foreign origin; Italia, a region of Europe.

[and] he put
ἐνεβίβασεν (enebibasen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1688: Trans: I embark, put on board, step into. From en and bibazo; to place on, i.e. Transfer.

us
ἡμᾶς (hēmas)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

on
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

[board].
αὐτό (auto)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Neuter 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.


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