Acts 27:15
King James Version
“And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let drive.”
Context
12And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, to winter; an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.
13And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained purpose, loosing they sailed close by Crete.
14But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.
15And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let drive.
16And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat:
17Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.
18And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next they lightened the ship;