Acts 27:13-21 - The ship was caught by the storm

27:13-20

It seemed that a window of opportunity had arisen with a break in the weather, so they left the harbour and sailed along the shore of Crete. However, the weather soon changed and the wind became hurricane force. Again we get more intricate details of the “journey”, or rather of how they were at the mercy of the wind. Things got so bad that they started to throw cargo overboard in order to lighten the ship. Things went from bad to worse and “we finally gave up all hope of being saved”. It is as certain as can be that Luke was on board this ship.

27:21

While Luke and the others may have given up hope, Paul had not. After a time Paul stood up and spoke to all of them. He started by pointing out how he had warned them against setting sail. Now he did not do this in order to gloat, but so that they would give him credibility, and so listen to him. Sometimes in life, in churches, people will ignore us even when we are right. In such times we should not go into a sulk. There may come a point when people are prepared to listen.