Acts 27:13 - Tree of Life Version

¹³ When the south wind blew gently, supposing they had obtained their purpose, they raised the anchor and started coasting along the shore by Crete.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ So when the south wind blew softly, supposing they were gaining their object, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, hugging the coast.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close in shore.

Common English Bible

¹³ When a gentle south wind began to blow, they thought they could carry out their plan. They pulled up anchor and sailed closely along the coast of Crete.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ 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.

Acts 27:13 Tagairtí Cros

Job 37:17

“You, whose clothes are hot, when the earth is still, because of the south wind,

Psalm 78:26

He loosed the east wind in the skies, and by His power He drove the south wind.

Song of Solomon 4:16

Awake, north wind, and come, south wind! Blow on my garden, Let its fragrance spread out. Let my lover come into his garden and eat its choicest fruit.

Luke 12:55

And when a south wind is blowing, you say, ‘It will be a scorcher’—and so it is.

Acts 2:11

(both Jewish people and proselytes), Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring in our own tongues the mighty deeds of God!”

Acts 27:12

And because the harbor was unsuitable for wintering, the majority reached a decision to set out to sea from there—if somehow they might reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete facing northeast and southeast, and spend the winter there.

Acts 27:21

As they had long been without food, Paul stood up in their midst and said, “Men, you should have listened to me and not sailed from Crete, to avoid this disaster and loss.

Acts 27:8

Coasting along it with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea.

Titus 1:12

One of them, one of their own prophets, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

Titus 1:5

The reason I left you in Crete was so that you would set in order the things that remain and appoint elders in every city as I directed you—