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Acts 27:4
And sailing again from there, we went on under cover of Cyprus, because the wind was against us.
Acts 27:4 · Bible in Basic English
Acts 27:4 in other translations
And when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.
After putting out from there, we sailed to the lee of Cyprus because the winds were against us.
Putting to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.
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In context
1 And when the decision had been made that we were to go by sea to Italy, they gave Paul and certain other prisoners into the care of a captain named Julius, of the Augustan band.
2 And we went to sea in a ship of Adramyttium which was sailing to the sea towns of Asia, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.
3 And on the day after, we came to Sidon; and Julius was kind to Paul, and let him go to see his friends and take a rest.
4 And sailing again from there, we went on under cover of Cyprus, because the wind was against us.
5 And having gone across the sea off Cilicia and Pamphylia we came to Myra, in Lycia.
6 And there the captain came across a ship of Alexandria, sailing for Italy, and put us in it.
7 And when we had gone on slowly for a long time, and had had hard work getting across to Cnidus, for the wind was against us, we went under cover of Crete, in the direction of Salmone;
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