Acts 10:6

10:6 This man is staying as a guest with a man named Simon, a tanner, ¹  whose house is by the sea.”

Acts 16:11

Arrival at Philippi

16:11 We put out to sea ²  from Troas ³  and sailed a straight course ⁴  to Samothrace, ⁵  the next day to Neapolis, ⁶ 

Acts 27:4-5

27:4 From there we put out to sea ⁷  and sailed under the lee ⁸  of Cyprus because the winds were against us. 27:5 After we had sailed across the open sea ⁹  off Cilicia and Pamphylia, ¹⁰  we put in ¹¹  at Myra ¹²  in Lycia. ¹³ 

Acts 27:38

27:38 When they had eaten enough to be satisfied, ¹⁴  they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat ¹⁵  into the sea.

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¹ tn Or “with a certain Simon Berseus.” Although most modern English translations treat βυρσεῖ (bursei) as Simon’s profession (“Simon the tanner”), it is possible that the word is actually Simon’s surname (“Simon Berseus” or “Simon Tanner”). BDAG 185 s.v. βυρσεύς regards it as a surname. See also MM 118.

² tn BDAG 62 s.v. ἀνάγω 4, “as a nautical t.t. (ἀ. τὴν ναῦν put a ship to sea), mid. or pass. ἀνάγεσθαι to begin to go by boat, put out to sea.”

³ sn Troas was a port city (and surrounding region) on the northwest coast of Asia Minor. See v. 8.

⁴ tn BDAG 406 s.v. εὐθυδρομέω has “of a ship run a straight course” here; L&N 54.3 has “to sail a straight course, sail straight to.”

⁵ sn Samothrace is an island in the northern part of the Aegean Sea.

⁶ sn Neapolis was a seaport on the southern coast of Macedonia. It was 10 mi (16 km) from Philippi.

⁷ tn Grk “putting out to sea.” The participle ἀναχθέντες (anacqente") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style. BDAG 62 s.v. ἀνάγω 4 states, “as a nautical t.t. (ἀ. τὴν ναῦν put a ship to sea), mid. or pass. ἀνάγεσθαι to begin to go by boat, put out to sea.”

⁸ tn BDAG 1040 s.v. ὑποπλέω states, “sail under the lee of an island, i.e. in such a way that the island protects the ship fr. the wind Ac 27:4, 7.” Thus they were east and north of the island.

⁹ tn Grk “the depths,” the deep area of a sea far enough from land that it is not protected by the coast (L&N 1.73).

¹⁰ sn Pamphylia was a province in the southern part of Asia Minor; it was west of Cilicia (see BDAG 753 s.v. Παμφυλία).

¹¹ tn BDAG 531 s.v. κατέρχομαι 2 states, “Of ships and those who sail in them, who ‘come down’ fr. the ‘high seas’: arrive, put in…ἔις τι at someth. a harbor 18:22; 21:3; 27:5.”

¹² sn Myra was a city on the southern coast of Lycia in Asia Minor. This journey from Sidon (v. 3) was 440 mi (700 km) and took about 15 days.

¹³ sn Lycia was the name of a peninsula on the southern coast of Asia Minor between Caria and Pamphylia.

¹⁴ tn Or “When they had eaten their fill.”

¹⁵ tn Or “grain.”