Bible Verses About Ships

Simon Peter saith to them: I go a fishing. They say to him: We also come with thee. And they went forth and entered into the ship: and that night they caught nothing.

But when the morning was come, Jesus stood on the shore: yet the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.

Jesus therefore said to them: Children, have you any meat? They answered him: No.

He saith to them: Cast the net on the right side of the ship; and you shall find. They cast therefore: and now they were not able to draw it, for the multitude of fishes.

That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter: It is the Lord. Simon Peter, when he heard that it was the Lord, girt his coat about him (for he was naked) and cast himself into the sea.

But the other disciples came in the ship (for they were not far from the land, but as it were two hundred cubits) dragging the net with fishes.

Going on board a ship of Adrumetum, we launched, meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia, Aristarchus, the Macedonian of Thessalonica, continuing with us.

And the day following, we came to Sidon. And Julius, treating Paul courteously, permitted him to go to his friends and to take care of himself.

And when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.

And sailing over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Lystra, which is in Lycia.

And there, the centurion, finding a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy, removed us into it.

And when for many days we had sailed slowly and were scarce come over against Gnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed near Crete by Salmone.

But the centurion believed the pilot and the master of the ship, more than those things which were said by Paul.

Which being taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship: and fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, they let down the sail yard and so were driven.

And the third day they cast out with their own hands the tacking of the ship.

And when neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and no small storms lay on us, all hope of our being saved was now taken away.

Who also sounding, found twenty fathoms: and going on a little further, they found fifteen fathoms.

Then fearing lest we should fall upon rough places, they cast four anchors out of the stern: and wished for the day.

But as the shipmen sought to fly out of the ship, having let down the boat into the sea, under colour, as though they would have cast anchors out of the forepart of the ship,

Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat and let her fall off.

And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves to the sea, loosing withal the rudder bands. And hoisting up the mainsail to the wind, they made towards shore.

And when we were fallen into a place where two seas met, they run the ship aground. And the forepart indeed, sticking fast, remained unmoveable: but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the sea.

And the soldiers' counsel was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any of them, swimming out should escape.

But the centurion, willing to save Paul, forbade it to be done. And he commanded that they who could swim should cast themselves first into the sea and save themselves and get to land.

And the rest, some they carried on boards and some on those things that belonged to the ship. And so it came to pass that every soul got safe to land.