Acts 27
Acts 27 is the twenty-seventh chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the journey of Paul from Caesarea heading to Rome, but stranded for a time in Malta. The book containing this chapter is anonymous but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke.
Text
The original text is written in Koine Greek and is divided into 44 verses. Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter are:
Codex Vaticanus (AD 325-350)
Codex Sinaiticus (AD 330-360)
Codex Bezae (ca. AD 400)
Codex Alexandrinus (ca. AD 400-440)
Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (ca. AD 450; extant 17-44)
Location
This chapter mentions or alludes to the following places (in order of appearance):
Structure
This chapter can be grouped:
Acts 27:1-8 = The Voyage to Rome Begins
Acts 27:9-12 = Paul’s Warning Ignored
Acts 27:13-38 = In the Tempest
Acts 27:39-44 = Shipwrecked on Malta
Verse 1
Calculation of position
The meteorological and nautical evidence demonstrates, and in rather spectacular fashion, that these events must have occurred just as Luke records them.
The most important piece of evidence is the exact compass bearing of the gale. This bearing can be established by means of three separate calculations.