Acts 27:18

And we being mightily tossed with the tempest, the next day they lightened the ship.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17Which being taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship, and fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, they let down the sail yard, and so were driven.

19And the third day they cast out with their own hands the tackling of the ship.

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Cross References

Psalms 107:27They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.

Matthew 16:26For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

Luke 16:8And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.

Acts 27:38And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, casting the wheat into the sea.

Hebrews 12:1And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to 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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