1. When it was decided that we should sail to Italy, they handed Paul and some other prisoners over to a centurion named Julius of the Cohort Augusta.
2. We went on board a ship from Adramyttium bound for ports in the province of Asia and set sail. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us.
3. On the following day we put in at Sidon where Julius was kind enough to allow Paul to visit his friends who took care of him.
4. From there we put out to sea and sailed around the sheltered side of Cyprus because of the headwinds,
5. and crossing the open sea off the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia we came to Myra in Lycia.
6. There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship that was sailing to Italy and put us on board.
7. For many days we made little headway, arriving at Cnidus only with difficulty, and because the wind would not permit us to continue our course we sailed for the sheltered side of Crete off Salmone.
8. We sailed past it with difficulty and reached a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea.
9. Much time had now passed and sailing had become hazardous because the time of the fast had already gone by, so Paul warned them,
10. “Men, I can see that this voyage will result in severe damage and heavy loss not only to the cargo and the ship, but also to our lives.”
11. The centurion, however, paid more attention to the pilot and to the owner of the ship than to what Paul said.
12. Since the harbor was unfavorably situated for spending the winter, the majority planned to put out to sea from there in the hope of reaching Phoenix, a port in Crete facing west-northwest, there to spend the winter.