Acts 27:13

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And since the south wind was blowing gently, they thought that they might reach their goal. And after they had set out from Asson, they weighed anchor at Crete.

Cross References

Job 37:17

Are not your garments hot, when the south wind blows across the land?

Song of Solomon 4:16

Rise up, north wind, and advance, south wind. Send a breeze through my garden, and carry its aromatic scents.

Luke 12:55

And when a south wind is blowing, you say, 'It will be hot.' And so it is.

Acts 2:11

likewise Jews and new converts, Cretans and Arabs: we have heard them speaking in our own languages the mighty deeds of God."

Acts 27:12

And since it was not a fitting port in which to winter, the majority opinion was to sail from there, so that somehow they might be able to arrive at Phoenicia, in order to winter there, at a port of Crete, which looks out toward the southwest and northwest.

Acts 27:21

And after they had fasted for a long time, Paul, standing in their midst, said: "Certainly, men, you should have listened to me and not set out from Crete, so as to cause this injury and loss.

Acts 27:8

And barely being able to sail past it, we arrived at a certain place, which is called Good Shelter, next to which was the city of Lasea.

Titus 1:12

A certain one of these, a prophet of their own kind, said: "The Cretans are ever liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons."

Titus 1:5

For this reason, I left you behind in Crete: so that those things which are lacking, you would correct, and so that you would ordain, throughout the communities, priests, (just as I also ordained you)