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.

Cross References

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.

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.

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.