Acts 27:15 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 27:15

Unable to head into the wind, the ship was caught up. So we gave way and let ourselves be driven along.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

and when the ship was caught, and could not face the wind, we gave way to it, and were driven.

KJV

And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.

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Commentary

2 voices

Oecumenius

Commentary on Acts (550)

It should be known that to say "face the wind" of a ship is not to be taken in the literal sense. For that expression applies only to a person. Therefore one must not constantly interpret Scripture literally. [AMMONIUS]

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And when the ship was caught,.... By the wind, snatched up by it, and forcibly carried away: and could not bear up into the wind; and against it, or look it in the face, as the word signifies; could not ply to windward, the wind being so high and the sea so strong: we let her drive; about the sea, at pleasure, it being in vain to attempt to get her forward against the wind, or to direct her course.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
συναρπασθέντος	sunarpasthentos	When was being seized	G4884 →
δὲ	de	then	G1161 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
πλοίου	ploiou	ship	G4143 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
μὴ	mē	not	G3361 →
δυναμένου	dunamenou	being able	G1410 →
ἀντοφθαλμεῖν	antophthalmein	to face	G503 →
τῷ	tō	to the	G3588 →
ἀνέμῳ	anemō	wind	G417 →
ἐπιδόντες	epidontes	having given way	G1929 →
ἐφερόμεθα.	epherometha	we were driven along.	G5342 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
James 3:4
Consider ships as well. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot is inclined.
leads to
- Matthew 8:24
  Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was engulfed by the waves; but Jesus was sleeping.
- Acts 27:14–38
  But it was not long before a cyclone called the Northeaster swept down across the island.
- Psalms 107:25–27
  For He spoke and raised a tempest that lifted the waves of the sea.
- Jonah 1:4
  Then the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship was in danger of breaking apart.
Through
Acts 27:27
On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic Sea. About midnight the sailors sensed they were approaching land.
leads to
- Revelation 18:17
  For in a single hour such fabulous wealth has been destroyed!” Every shipmaster, passenger, and sailor, and all who make their living from the sea, will stand at a distance
- 1 Kings 9:27
  And Hiram sent his servants, men who knew the sea, to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s servants.
- Acts 27:30
  Meanwhile, the sailors attempted to escape from the ship. Pretending to lower anchors from the bow, they let the lifeboat down into the sea.
- Jonah 1:6
  The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”