Acts 27:15 - Modern English Version

¹⁵ When the ship was overpowered and could not head into the wind, we let her drift.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ And when the ship was caught and was unable to head against the wind, we gave up and, letting her drift, were borne along.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ and when the ship was caught, and could not face the wind, we gave way to it, and were driven.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ The ship was caught in the storm and couldn’t be turned into the wind. So we gave in to it, and it carried us along.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ And once the ship had been caught in it and was not able to strive against the wind, giving over the ship to the winds, we were driven along.

Acts 27:15 Tagairtí Cros

Acts 27:14

But soon afterward a tempestuous wind swept through, called the Euraquilo.

Acts 27:16

Drifting under the leeward side of an island called Cauda, we could scarcely secure the rowboat.

Acts 27:27

When the fourteenth night came, while we were drifting in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors supposed that they were approaching land.

James 3:4

And observe ships. Though they are so great and are driven by fierce winds, yet they are directed with a very small rudder wherever the captain pleases.