Acts 27:18

And since we were exceedingly storm-tossed, on the next day they jettisoned.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;

In Context

17And having taken that up, they used helps, undergirding the ship. And fearing lest they might fall off into the sandbank, having lowered the vessel, they were driven this way.

19And the third day we cast out by hands the tackling of the ship.

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Cross References

Psalms 107:27They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

Matthew 16:26For what does it profit a men, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Luke 16:8And his lord commended the unrighteous manager because he did shrewdly. Because the sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of the light.

Acts 27:38And after being filled of food, they unloaded the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

Hebrews 12:1Therefore we also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, having put off every weight and cleverly entangling sin, let us run by perseverance the contest being set before us.

Matthew Henry on Acts 27:13-21

Paul's Voyage towards Rome. 12 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. 13 And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete. 14 But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon. 15 And when the ship was… Read the whole commentary →

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