Acts 27:19

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

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

18And we being violently tempest-tossed, the next day they lightened the ship;

20And neither sun nor stars appearing for many days, and no small tempest lying on us, thenceforward all hope that we should be saved was utterly taken away.

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Cross References

Mark 8:35For whoever will save his life shall lose it; but whoever shall lose his life, for the sake of me and of the glad tidings, 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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