Acts 28:11 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹¹ After three months we set sail on a ship that had spent the winter on the island [of Melita]. This ship had originated from Alexandria and was designated as “Twin Brothers” [Note: The ship may have been named this because of its prow containing the figures of the mythical twin gods of sailors, Castor and Pollux].

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ It was after three months' stay there that we set sail in a ship which had wintered in the island, an Alexandrian ship with the Twin Brothers [Castor and Pollux] as its figurehead.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ And after three months we set sail in a ship of Alexandria which had wintered in the island, whose sign was The Twin Brothers.

Common English Bible

¹¹ After three months we put out to sea in a ship that had spent the winter at the island. It was an Alexandrian ship with carvings of the twin gods Castor and Pollux as its figurehead.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ And so, after three months, we sailed in a ship from Alexandria, whose name was 'the Castors,' and which had wintered at the island.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ And after three months, we sailed in a ship of Alexandria, that had wintered in the island, whose sign was the Castors.

Acts 28:11 Cross References

Acts 13:6

When they had traveled across the whole island they came to Paphos [a town on the island of Cyprus]; [there] they met a certain magician named Bar-Jesus, who was a Jewish false prophet.

Acts 27:6

There Julius, the military officer, arranged [passage] for us on a ship, [originating] from Alexandria, [and] bound for Italy, and put us on board.

Acts 28:10

These people also showered many honors on us and when we sailed [away], they brought the provisions we needed and put them aboard [the ship].

Acts 28:12

And docking at Syracuse [i.e., a town on the eastern shore of Sicily], we stayed there three days.

Acts 6:9

But several men from the synagogue, made up of freed slaves from Cyrene, Alexandria, Cilicia and Asia, began arguing with Stephen.

1 Corinthians 8:4

Now concerning [the matter of] eating foods [once] offered as sacrifices to idols, we know that an idol is [really] nothing in the world [at all], and that there is only one God.