ACTS 27:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.”
Since the harbor was not suitable to winter in, the majority decided that we should sail on, hoping to reach Phoenix and winter there. (Phoenix was a harbor in Crete, facing both southwest and northwest.) - The harbor's inadequacy ('not suitable,' euandros, euandros-'good for wintering'), combined with the 'majority's decision' (pleistos, pleistos-'the larger part'), leads to motion toward Phoenix. Luke's parenthetical note about Phoenix's location shows his precise knowledge: 'facing both southwest and northwest' means it offers shelter from multiple wind directions. The plan is reasonable by human calculation-and dangerously wrong by divine foreknowledge.
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