Acts 27:34

Wherefore, I exhort you to take food; for this will promote your safety. For not a hair shall fall from the head of any of you.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.

In Context

33And while the day was coming on, Paul exhorted them all to take food, saying: This is the fourteenth day that you have been in suspense, and continued without food, having taken nothing.

35And when he had said this, he took bread, and gave thanks to God before them all, and broke, and began to eat.

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Cross References

Matthew 15:32Then Jesus called his disciples to him, and said: I have compassion on the multitude, because they have been with me now three days, and have nothing to eat. And I am not willing to send them away fasting, lest they faint on the road.

Luke 12:7But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.

Philippians 2:5Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,

Matthew Henry on Acts 27:22-44

Paul's Voyage towards Rome. 21 But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. 22 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship. 23 For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, 24 Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Cæsar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them… Read the whole commentary →

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