Acts 27:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When the fourteenth night had come, as we were drifting across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

The fourteenth night had come and we were drifting and being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, when about midnight the sailors began to suspect that they were drawing near to some land.

American Standard Version (1901)

But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven to and fro in the sea of Adria, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some country:

Common English Bible

On the fourteenth night, we were being carried across the Adriatic Sea. Around midnight the sailors began to suspect that land was near.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then, after the fourteenth night arrived, as we were navigating in the sea of Adria, about the middle of the night, the sailors believed that they saw some portion of the land.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But after the fourteenth night was come, as we were sailing in Adria, about midnight, the shipmen deemed that they discovered some country.

Acts 27:27 Cross References

1 Kings 9:27

Hiram sent his servants with the fleet, sailors who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon.

Jonah 1:6

The captain came and said to him, “What are you doing sound asleep? Get up; call on your god! Perhaps the god will spare us a thought so that we do not perish.”

Acts 27:26

But we will have to run aground on some island.”

Acts 27:28

So they took soundings and found twenty fathoms; a little farther on they took soundings again and found fifteen fathoms.

Acts 27:30

But when the sailors tried to escape from the ship and had lowered the boat into the sea on the pretext of putting out anchors from the bow,

Revelation 18:17

For in one hour all this wealth has been laid waste!” And all shipmasters and seafarers, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off