Acts 27:19
And the third day we cast out by hands the tackling of the ship.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.
In Context
18And since we were exceedingly storm-tossed, on the next day they jettisoned.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 3:6a time to seek, and a time to lose, a time to keep, and a time to cast away,
Mark 8:35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life because of me and the good-news, this man will save it.
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 →