27:26

However: The Greek word that the Berean Standard Bible translates as However is often translated as “and” or “but.” The conjunction introduces more information about what will happen. There is no contrast to what God said would happen here. There is some implied contrast to all the people living through the storm (27:24b), because the ship would be lost in the storm, which would be dangerous. 27:26 explains 27:22b. In some languages, translating the Greek conjunction in a different way may be more natural. For example:

we are… (Revised English Bible)
-or-
and

we must run aground on some island: The Greek clause can be translated literally as “it is necessary for us to run aground on an island.” The angel probably told Paul that the storm would drive the ship onto an island, but did not say which island. Other ways to translate this clause are:

we will be driven ashore on some island (Good News Translation)
-or-
the storm will drive our ⌊ship⌋ onto an island
-or-

⌊the ship that⌋ we ⌊are on⌋ will crash/wreck onto an island

run aground: See how you translated this phrase in 27:17.

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