Acts 27:13-19 ▼

13 And the south wind blowing, thinking they could achieve their purpose, lifting up a sail, they went coasting along near Crete.

14 Not long afterward a typhonic wind, called Euraquilo, set in against her;

15 and the ship having been seized, and being unable to resist the wind, having given away to it, we were borne along.

16 And running under a certain island called Clauda, we were scarcely able to get possession of the boat:

17 which lifting up they used helps, under-girding the ship; and fearing lest they might fall into Syrtis, lowering the gear, they were thus carried along.

18 And we being tossed violently by the storm, they were successively making the casting out,

19 and on the third day with their own hands they threw overboard the tackling of the ship;