Bible Verses About Ships

Shim‘on Kefa said, “I’m going fishing.” They said to him, “We’re coming with you.” They went and got into the boat, but that night they didn’t catch anything.

However, just as day was breaking, Yeshua stood on shore, but the talmidim didn’t know it was he.

He said to them, “You don’t have any fish, do you?” “No,” they answered him.

He said to them, “Throw in your net to starboard and you will catch some.” So they threw in their net, and there were so many fish in it that they couldn’t haul it aboard.

The talmid Yeshua loved said to Kefa, “It’s the Lord!” On hearing it was the Lord, Shim‘on Kefa threw on his coat, because he was stripped for work, and plunged into the lake;

but the other talmidim followed in the boat, dragging the net full of fish; for they weren’t far from shore, only about a hundred yards.

We embarked in a ship from Adramyttium which was about to sail to the ports along the coast of the province of Asia, and put out to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica.

The next day, we landed at Tzidon; and Julius considerately allowed Sha’ul to go visit his friends and receive what he needed.

Putting to sea from there, we sailed close to the sheltered side of Cyprus because the winds were against us,

then across the open sea along the coasts of Cilicia and Pamphylia; and so we reached Myra in Lycia.

There the Roman officer found an Alexandrian vessel sailing to Italy and put us aboard.

For a number of days we made little headway, and we arrived off Cnidus only with difficulty. The wind would not let us continue any farther along the direct route; so we ran down along the sheltered side of Crete from Cape Salmone;

However, the officer paid more attention to the pilot and the ship’s owner than to what Sha’ul said.

They hoisted it aboard, then fastened cables tightly around the ship itself to reinforce it. Fearing they might run aground on the Syrtis sandbars, they lowered the topsails and thus continued drifting.

and the third day, they threw the ship’s sailing equipment overboard with their own hands.

For many days neither the sun nor the stars appeared, while the storm continued to rage, until gradually all hope of survival vanished.

So they dropped a plumbline and found the water one hundred and twenty feet deep. A little farther on, they took another sounding and found it ninety feet.

Fearing we might run on the rocks, they let out four anchors from the stern and prayed for daylight to come.

At this point, the crew made an attempt to abandon ship — they lowered the lifeboat into the sea, pretending that they were about to let out some anchors from the bow.

Then the soldiers cut the ropes holding the lifeboat and let it go.

So they cut away the anchors and left them in the sea; at the same time, they loosened the ropes that held the rudders out of the water. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and headed for the beach.

But they encountered a place where two currents meet, and ran the vessel aground on the sandbar there. The bow stuck and would not move, while the pounding of the surf began to break up the stern.

At this point the soldiers’ thought was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim off and escape.

But the officer, wanting to save Sha’ul, kept them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to throw themselves overboard first and head for shore,

and the rest to use planks or whatever they could find from the ship. Thus it was that everyone reached land safely.