Acts 27:20

And as we had not seen the sun or stars for a long time, and a great storm was on us, all hope of salvation was gone.

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In The King James Version

And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.

In Context

19And on the third day, they let all the sailing apparatus go over the side.

21And when they had been without food for a long time, Paul got up among them and said, Friends, it would have been better if you had given attention to me and not gone sailing out from Crete, to undergo this damage and loss.

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Cross References

Exodus 10:21And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out to heaven, and all the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men will be feeling their way about in the dark.

Psalms 107:25For at his word comes up the storm-wind, lifting high the waves.

Jeremiah 2:25Do not let your foot be without shoes, or your throat dry from need of water: but you said, There is no hope: no, for I have been a lover of strange gods, and after them I will go.

Jonah 1:4And the Lord sent out a great wind on to the sea and there was a violent storm in the sea, so that the ship seemed in danger of being broken.

Matthew 8:24And there came up a great storm in the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves: but he was sleeping.

2 Corinthians 11:25Three times I was whipped with rods, once I was stoned, three times the ship I was in came to destruction at sea, a night and a day I have been in the water;

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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