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 AD, 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.

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