Acts 27:13

New Century Version

When a good wind began to blow from the south, the men on the ship thought, “This is the wind we wanted, and now we have it.” So they pulled up the anchor, and we sailed very close to the island of Crete.

Cross References

Job 37:17

You suffer in your clothes when the land is silenced by the hot, south wind.

Psalm 78:26

He sent the east wind from heaven and led the south wind by his power.

Song of Solomon 4:16

Awake, north wind. Come, south wind. Blow on my garden, and let its sweet smells flow out. Let my lover enter the garden and eat its best fruits.

Luke 12:55

When you feel the wind begin to blow from the south, you say, ‘It will be a hot day,’ and it happens.

Acts 2:11

(both Jews and those who had become Jews), Crete, and Arabia. But we hear them telling in our own languages about the great things God has done!”

Acts 27:12

Since that harbor was not a good place for the ship to stay for the winter, most of the men decided that the ship should leave. They hoped we could go to Phoenix and stay there for the winter. Phoenix, a city on the island of Crete, had a harbor which faced southwest and northwest.

Acts 27:21

After the men had gone without food for a long time, Paul stood up before them and said, “Men, you should have listened to me. You should not have sailed from Crete. Then you would not have all this trouble and loss.

Acts 27:8

Sailing past it was hard. Then we came to a place called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea.

Titus 1:12

Even one of their own prophets said, “Cretans are always liars, evil animals, and lazy people who do nothing but eat.”

Titus 1:5

I left you in Crete so you could finish doing the things that still needed to be done and so you could appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.