Acts 27:13

New American Bible - revised edition

A south wind blew gently, and thinking they had attained their objective, they weighed anchor and sailed along close to the coast of Crete.

Cross References

Job 37:17

You, who swelter in your clothes when calm lies over the land from the south,

Psalm 78:26

He stirred up the east wind in the skies; by his might God brought on the south wind.

Song of Solomon 4:16

Awake, north wind! Come, south wind! Blow upon my garden that its perfumes may spread abroad. W Let my lover come to his garden and eat its fruits of choicest yield.

Luke 12:55

and when you notice that the wind is blowing from the south you say that it is going to be hot—and so it is.

Acts 2:11

both Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs, yet we hear them speaking in our own tongues of the mighty acts of God.”

Acts 27:12

Since the harbor was unfavorably situated for spending the winter, the majority planned to put out to sea from there in the hope of reaching Phoenix, a port in Crete facing west-northwest, there to spend the winter.

Acts 27:21

When many would no longer eat, Paul stood among them and said, “Men, you should have taken my advice and not have set sail from Crete and you would have avoided this disastrous loss.

Acts 27:8

We sailed past it with difficulty and reached a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea.

Titus 1:12

One of them, a prophet of their own, once said, “Cretans have always been liars, vicious beasts, and lazy gluttons.”

Titus 1:5

For this reason I left you in Crete so that you might set right what remains to be done and appoint presbyters in every town, as I directed you,