Acts 27:15 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

and when the ship was caught [by it], we were not able to face the wind, so had to give in and allow the ship to drift.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And when the ship was caught and was unable to head against the wind, we gave up and, letting her drift, were borne along.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

The ship was caught in the storm and couldn’t be turned into the wind. So we gave in to it, and it carried us along.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And once the ship had been caught in it and was not able to strive against the wind, giving over the ship to the winds, we were driven along.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up against the wind, giving up the ship to the winds, we were driven.

Acts 27:15 Cross References

Acts 27:14

But a short time later, a violent northeasterly wind they called “Euraquilo” swept down,

Acts 27:16

Then, sailing on the sheltered side of a small island named Cauda, we experienced difficulty in trying to secure the ship’s life-boat.

Acts 27:27

When the fourteenth night came, and while we were being tossed around [helplessly] in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the crew suspected they were nearing land.

James 3:4

Look, even though ships are huge and are driven by strong winds, still their direction can be governed by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires to sail.