Acts 27:19

and on the third day, with our own hands, we threw out the tackling of the ship.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.

In Context

18And as we were greatly tossed by the tempest, on the next day they threw overboard the cargo;

20And as neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest lay upon us, all hope of our being saved was at length taken away.

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Cross References

Mark 8:35For whoever will save his life, shall lose it; but whoever will lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, shall 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 →

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