Acts 27:18

But the storm being extremely violent on us, on the next day they threw cargo overboard,

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17which having hoisted up, they used helps, frapping the ship; and fearing lest they should run into Syrtis and run aground, and having lowered the gear they were so driven.

19and on the third day with their own hands they cast away the ship furniture.

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Cross References

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

Matthew 16:26For what does a man profit, if he should gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Luke 16:8And the lord praised the unrighteous steward because he had done prudently. For the sons of this world are, for their own generation, more prudent than the sons of light.

Acts 27:38And having satisfied themselves with food, they lightened the ship, casting out the wheat into the sea.

Hebrews 12:1Let *us* also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies 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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