Acts 27:8 We moved along the coast with difficulty and came to a place called Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
We moved along the coast with difficulty and came to a place called Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea.

English Standard Version
Coasting along it with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea.

New American Standard Bible
and with difficulty sailing past it we came to a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea.

King James Bible
And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
With yet more difficulty we sailed along the coast and came to a place called Fair Havens near the city of Lasea.

International Standard Version
Sailing past it with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea.

American Standard Version
and with difficulty coasting along it we came unto a certain place called Fair Havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And with much ado sailing by it, we came into a certain place, which is called Good-havens, nigh to which was the city of Thalassa.

Darby Bible Translation
and coasting it with difficulty we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near to which was the city of Lasaea.

Young's Literal Translation
and hardly passing it, we came to a certain place called 'Fair Havens,' nigh to which was the city of Lasaea.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

27:1-11 It was determined by the counsel of God, before it was determined by the counsel of Festus, that Paul should go to Rome; for God had work for him to do there. The course they steered, and the places they touched at, are here set down. And God here encourages those who suffer for him, to trust in him; for he can put it into the hearts of those to befriend them, from whom they least expect it. Sailors must make the best of the wind: and so must we all in our passage over the ocean of this world. When the winds are contrary, yet we must be getting forward as well as we can. Many who are not driven backward by cross providences, do not get forward by favourable providences. And many real Christians complain as to the concerns of their souls, that they have much ado to keep their ground. Every fair haven is not a safe haven. Many show respect to good ministers, who will not take their advice. But the event will convince sinners of the vanity of their hopes, and the folly of their conduct.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

8. And hardly passing it—"with difficulty coasting along it," from the same cause as before, the westerly current and head winds.

came to … the Fair Havens—an anchorage near the center of the south coast, and a little east of Cape Matala, the southern most point of the island.

nigh whereunto was the city Lasea—identified by the Reverend George Brown [Smith, Voyages and Shipwreck of St. Paul, Appendix 3, Second Edition, 1856]. (To this invaluable book commentators on this chapter, and these notes, are much indebted).