Acts 4:3

4:3 So ¹  they seized ²  them and put them in jail ³  until the next day (for it was already evening).

Acts 16:11

Arrival at Philippi

16:11 We put out to sea ⁴  from Troas ⁵  and sailed a straight course ⁶  to Samothrace, ⁷  the next day to Neapolis, ⁸ 

Acts 27:4-6

27:4 From there we put out to sea ⁹  and sailed under the lee ¹⁰  of Cyprus because the winds were against us. 27:5 After we had sailed across the open sea ¹¹  off Cilicia and Pamphylia, ¹²  we put in ¹³  at Myra ¹⁴  in Lycia. ¹⁵  27:6 There the centurion ¹⁶  found ¹⁷  a ship from Alexandria ¹⁸  sailing for Italy, and he put us aboard it.

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¹ tn Grk “And” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the logical sequence of events.

² tn Or “they arrested”; Grk “they laid hands on.”

³ tn Or “prison,” “custody.”

⁴ 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.”

⁵ sn Troas was a port city (and surrounding region) on the northwest coast of Asia Minor. See v. 8.

⁶ 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.”

⁷ sn Samothrace is an island in the northern part of the Aegean Sea.

⁸ sn Neapolis was a seaport on the southern coast of Macedonia. It was 10 mi (16 km) from Philippi.

⁹ 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.”

¹⁰ 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.

¹¹ 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).

¹² sn Pamphylia was a province in the southern part of Asia Minor; it was west of Cilicia (see BDAG 753 s.v. Παμφυλία).

¹³ 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.”

¹⁴ 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.

¹⁵ sn Lycia was the name of a peninsula on the southern coast of Asia Minor between Caria and Pamphylia.

¹⁶ sn See the note on the word centurion in 10:1.

¹⁷ tn Grk “finding.” The participle εὑρών (Jeurwn) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

¹⁸ sn Alexandria (modern Alexandria) was a great city of northern Egypt which was a center for grain trade to Rome. Therefore this type of travel connection was common at the time. For a winter journey (considered hazardous) there were special bonuses and insurance provided (Suetonius, Life of Claudius 18.1-2).