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Nevertheless the Centurion (Roman commander of an hundred men) believed the master and the owner of the ship, more than those things which were spoken by Sha’ul [desired].

And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart there also, if by any means they might attain to Phoenicia [land of palm trees], [and there] to winter; [which is] an haven of Crete [fleshy], and lies toward the south west and north west.