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  • Acts 27:6
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 6 There the army officer found a ship from Alexandria that was sailing for Italy, and he made us board it.

  • Acts 27:6
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 6 Κἀκεῖ And there εὑρὼν having found ὁ the ἑκατοντάρχης centurion πλοῖον boat ᾿Αλεξανδρινὸν Alexandrian πλέον sailing εἰς into τὴν the Ἰταλίαν Italy ἐνεβίβασεν he made go in ἡμᾶς us εἰς into αὐτό. it.

  • Acts 27:6
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 6 But there the army officer found a boat* from Alexandria+ that was sailing for Italy, and he made us board it.

  • Acts 27:6
    The Bible in Living English
    • 6 and there the centurion, finding a ship from Alexandria on its way to Italy, embarked us in it.

  • Acts 27:6
    American Standard Version
    • 6 And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy; and he put us therein.

  • Acts 27:6
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 6 And the centurion there finding a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy put us therein.

  • Acts 27:6
    King James Version
    • 6 And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy; and he put us therein.

  • Acts
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2026
    • 27:6 bt 205, 208; it-1 72; it-2 455; w99 3/15 29-30

  • Acts
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 27:6 ad 50, 1194; g71 4/8 27

  • Acts
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 27:6

      Bearing Witness, pp. 205, 208

      Insight, Volume 1, pp. 71-72

      Insight, Volume 2, p. 455

      The Watchtower,

      3/15/1999, pp. 29-30

  • Acts Study Notes—Chapter 27
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 27:6

      a ship: A grain ship. (Ac 27:37, 38) In those days, Egypt was the chief granary for Rome. Egyptian grain ships docked at Myra, a major city situated near the coast of SW Asia Minor. The army officer Julius located such a ship and had the soldiers and prisoners board. This vessel must have been much larger than the ship that carried them on the first part of the journey. (Ac 27:1-3) It carried a valuable cargo of wheat as well as 276 people​—the crew, the soldiers, the prisoners, and likely others heading to Rome. Myra was due N of Alexandria and may therefore have been on the regular route of ships from that Egyptian city. Or it may be that contrary winds (Ac 27:4, 7) forced the Alexandrian vessel to change its course and drop anchor at Myra.​—See App. B13.

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