Acts 27:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea.

Acts 27:8 —

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Fair Havens Lasea

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-11)

It does not appear how long it was after Paul’s conference with Agrippa that he was sent away for Rome, pursuant to his appeal to Caesar; but it is likely they took the first convenience they could hear of to do it; in the mean time Paul is in the midst of his friends at Caesarea—they comforts to him, and he a blessing to them. But here we are told, I. How Paul was shipped off for Italy: a long vo…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. And hardly passing it--“with difficulty coasting along it,” from the same cause as before, the westerly current and head winds. came to ... the Fair Havens--an anchorage near the center of the south coast, and a little east of Cape Matala, the southern most point of the island. nigh whereunto was the city Lasea--identified by the Reverend George Brown [Smith, Voyages and Shipwreck of St. Paul,…