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Acts 27:41

Acts chapter 27 · verse 41 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

But lighting upon a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground; and the foreship struck and remained unmoveable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

But lighting upon a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground; and the foreship struck and remained unmoveable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves.

Context

v.40And casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time loosing the bands of the rudders; and hoisting up the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.

v.41This passage

v.42And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Acts 27:17

    and when they had hoisted it up, they used helps, under-girding the ship; and, fearing lest they should be cast upon the Syrtis, they lowered the gear, and so were driven.

  • Acts 27:26

    But we must be cast upon a certain island.

  • Ezekiel 27:34

    In the time that thou wast broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, thy merchandise and all thy company did fall in the midst of thee.

  • Ezekiel 27:26

    Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas.

  • 1 Kings 22:48

    Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.

  • 2 Chronicles 20:37

    Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, Jehovah hath destroyed thy works. And the ships were broken, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish.