Acts 27:15

New King James Version

So when the ship was caught, and could not head into the wind, we let her drive.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Since the ship was caught and unable to head into the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.

King James Version (1611)
And when the ship was caught, and could not beare vp into the winde, we let her driue.

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

English Standard Version
And when the ship was caught and could not face the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.

New American Standard Bible
and when the ship was caught in it and could not head up into the wind, we gave up and let ourselves be driven by the wind.

New Century Version
The ship was caught in it and could not sail against it. So we stopped trying and let the wind carry us.

Amplified Bible
and when the ship was caught in it and could not head against the wind [to gain stability], we gave up and [letting her drift] were driven along.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and when the ship was caught in it and could not face the wind, we gave way to it and let ourselves be driven along.

Legacy Standard Bible
and when the ship was caught in it and could not face the wind, we gave way to it and let ourselves be carried along.

Berean Standard Bible
Unable to head into the wind, the ship was caught up. So we gave way and let ourselves be driven along.

Contemporary English Version
The wind struck the ship, and we could not sail against it. So we let the wind carry the ship.

Complete Jewish Bible
The ship was caught up and unable to face the wind, so we gave way to it and were driven along.

Darby Translation
And the ship being caught and driven, and not able to bring her head to the wind, letting her go we were driven [before it].

Easy-to-Read Version
This wind took the ship and carried it away. The ship could not sail against the wind, so we stopped trying and let the wind blow us.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And when the ship was caught, and could not resist the winde, we let her goe, and were caried away.

George Lamsa Translation
And when the ship was caught, and could not bear against the wind, we let her drive.

Good News Translation
It hit the ship, and since it was impossible to keep the ship headed into the wind, we gave up trying and let it be carried along by the wind.

Lexham English Bible
And when the ship was caught and was not able to head into the wind, we gave way and were driven along.

Literal Translation
And the ship being seized, and not being able to beat against the wind, giving way we were borne along.

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

Bible in Basic English
And when the ship got into the grip of it, and was not able to make headway into the wind, we gave way, and went before it.

Hebrew Names Version
When the ship was caught, and couldn't face the wind, we gave way to it, and were driven along.

International Standard Version
The ship was caught so that it couldn't face the wind, and we gave up and were swept along.

Etheridge Translation
and the ship was carried away, and could not stand against the wind, and we gave her into its hand.

Murdock Translation
And the ship was whirled about by the wind, and could not keep head to it; and we resigned [fn] to its power.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when the shippe was caught, and coulde not resist the wynde, we let her go, and were dryuen with the weather.

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

World English Bible
When the ship was caught, and couldn't face the wind, we gave way to it, and were driven along.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And the ship being caught, and not able to bear up against the wind, we let her drive.

Weymouth's New Testament
She was unable to make headway against the gale; so we gave up and let her drive.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne the schip was rauyschid, and myyte not enforse ayens the wynde, whanne the schip was youun to the blowynges of the wynde, we weren borun with cours into an ile,

Update Bible Version
and when the ship was caught, and could not face the wind, we gave way [to it,] and were driven.

Webster's Bible Translation
And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let [her] drive.

New English Translation
When the ship was caught in it and could not head into the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.

New Living Translation
The sailors couldn't turn the ship into the wind, so they gave up and let it run before the gale.

New Life Bible
The ship was stopped by the wind. After awhile we gave up and let it go with the wind.

New Revised Standard
Since the ship was caught and could not be turned head-on into the wind, we gave way to it and were driven.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, the ship being caught and we not being able to bring her head to the wind, we let her go, and were borne along.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when the ship was caught and could not bear up against the wind, giving up the ship to the winds, we were driven.

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

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And when the ship was caught and coulde not resist the wynde we let her goo and drave with the wether.

Young's Literal Translation
and the ship being caught, and not being able to bear up against the wind, having given [her] up, we were borne on,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan the shippe was caught, and coulde not resist ye wynde, we let her go, and draue with the wedder.

Mace New Testament (1729)
we could not go upon the wind, but were forc'd to let her drive.

Simplified Cowboy Version
The ship couldn't be turned in such a strong wind and so the sailors just shucked the reins and let her run.

Contextual Overview

¹² And because the harbor was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised to set sail from there also, if by any means they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete opening toward the southwest and northwest, and winter there. ¹³ When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their desire, putting out to sea, they sailed close by Crete. ¹⁴ But not long after, a tempestuous head wind arose, called Euroclydon. [fn] ¹⁵ So when the ship was caught, and could not head into the wind, we let her drive. ¹⁶ And running under the shelter of an island called Clauda, [fn] we secured the skiff with difficulty. ¹⁷ When they had taken it on board, they used cables to undergird the ship; and fearing lest they should run aground on the Syrtis [fn] Sands, they struck sail and so were driven. ¹⁸ And because we were exceedingly tempest-tossed, the next day they lightened the ship. ¹⁹ On the third day we threw the ship's tackle overboard with our own hands. ²⁰ Now when neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest beat on us, all hope that we would be saved was finally given up.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

we: Acts 27:27, James 3:4

Reciprocal: Psalms 107:27 - are at their wit's end

Cross-References

Luke 15:22
But the father said to his servants, 'Bring [fn] out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.

Luke 20:46
"Beware of the scribes, who desire to go around in long robes, love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the ship was caught,.... By the wind, snatched up by it, and forcibly carried away:

and could not bear up into the wind; and against it, or look it in the face, as the word signifies; could not ply to windward, the wind being so high and the sea so strong:

we let her drive; about the sea, at pleasure, it being in vain to attempt to get her forward against the wind, or to direct her course.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The ship was caught - By the wind. It came suddenly upon them as a tempest.

Could not bear up ... - Could not resist its violence, or the helmsman could not direct the ship. It was seized by the wind, and driven with such violence, that it became unmanageable.

We let her drive - We suffered the ship to be borne along by the wind without attempting to control it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 27:15. And when the ship was caught — Συναρπασθεντος δε του πλοιου. The ship was violently hurried away before this strong levanter; so that it was impossible for her, αντοφθαλμειν, to face the wind, to turn her prow to it, so as to shake it out, as I have heard sailors say, and have seen them successfully perform in violent tempests and squalls.

We let her drive. — We were obliged to let her go right before this tempestuous wind, whithersoever it might drive her.