Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

If you're doing our New Testament plan, today we finished our 12th book, and if you're doing the whole Bible, we finished our 51st book.

Paul defended himself in front of King Agrippa and Governor Felix yesterday, and today we launch into the aftermath of that trial, where he's being transported to Rome to appeal to Caesar like he requested.

He has to be taken there by sea, and the authorities are kind enough to let his friends travel with him

including our narrator Luke. This is a bigger ship with sails and anchors not a little fishing boat and there are

nearly 300 people on board. At this point it's approximately 59 a.D. roughly 30 years

after Jesus rose from the dead and it's autumn. The trip is taking them longer than

it normally would because they hit some rough winds and have to reroute along the way.

Around this time of year most of the shipping expeditions are halted because the weather is so bad on the

seas in winter. Paul tells them, I have a bad feeling about this you guys.

If we continue on, I don't think this is going to go well.

We'll probably end up losing some of our supplies and some of our shipmates.

By the way, we don't have any evidence that this is a message from God.

It could just be Paul speaking from experience.

Either way, they don't listen to him. He's a prisoner after all.

Sure enough, they hit a storm. On day two of the storm they start throwing the ship's cargo overboard, which probably includes

exports like wheat. On day three of the storm they start throwing their actual tools and maybe

even parts of the ship itself overboard. They're getting desperate. The sky is dark and

stormy for days and they're feeling hopeless and probably seasick too I'm

guessing. They haven't had anything to eat in days but I'm not sure if that makes things better or worse.

At one point Paul stands up and says,

I wish you would have taken my words to heart,

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