Acts Chapter 27 verse 16 Holy Bible

ASV Acts 27:16

And running under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we were able, with difficulty, to secure the boat:
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BBE Acts 27:16

And, sailing near the side of a small island named Cauda, we were able, though it was hard work, to make the ship's boat safe:
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DARBY Acts 27:16

But running under the lee of a certain island called Clauda, we were with difficulty able to make ourselves masters of the boat;
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KJV Acts 27:16

And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat:
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WEB Acts 27:16

Running under the lee of a small island called Clauda, we were able, with difficulty, to secure the boat.
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YLT Acts 27:16

and having run under a certain little isle, called Clauda, we were hardly able to become masters of the boat,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - Under the lee of for under, A.V.; small for certain, A.V. (νήσιον); called Cauda for which is called Clauda, A.V. and T.R; were able, with difficulty, to secure for had much work to come by, A.V. Running under the lee of; ὑποδραμόντες, only here in the New Testament, but common in classical Greek for "running under" or "between." (For the use of ὑπό in compound in the sense of "under the lee of," see ver. 7.) Cauda, or Caudos, as it is called by Pomp. Mela (2. 7)and Pliny ('Nat. Hist.,' 4. 12. 20), the modern Gozzo. Ptolemy (3:7) calls it Claudus. The manuscripts greatly vary. Clauda, or Cauda, was about twenty-three miles south-west of Crete. With difficulty (μόλις, as in vers. 7, 8). To secure the boat. The boat was doubtless being towed astern. But in the violence of the storm, there was a danger every moment of her being parted from the ship by the snapping of the hawser, or by being broken by the waves, and it was impossible to take her up. Under the lee of the little island, however, the sea was somewhat quieter; and so after greater efforts they secured the boat, and, as it is said in the next verse, "hoisted it up" on to the deck.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) And running under a certain island which is called Clauda.--Some MSS. give the various-reading Cauda, which agrees more closely with the form Gaudos found in Pliny and Suidas. This, in its turn, has passed into the modern Gozzo. The island lay about twenty-three miles to the south-west of Crete. Here they got under the lee of the shore, and availed themselves of the temporary shelter to prepare the ship more thoroughly than had been possible before to encounter the fury of the storm. The first step was to get the boat, which hitherto apparently had been towed through the waves, on board the ship. This, as St. Luke says, was a matter of much work (literally, we were with difficulty able to get hold of the boat), partly, we may believe, because it was not easy to keep the vessel with her head to the wind, and so avoid the motion which would have impeded the operation, partly, because the boat was probably full of water.