Acts 27:18

And as we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw the [the freight] overboard;

American Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17and when they had hoisted it up, they used helps, under-girding the ship; and, fearing lest they should be cast upon the Syrtis, they lowered the gear, 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 reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits` end.

Matthew 16:26For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?

Luke 16:8And his lord commended the unrighteous steward because he had done wisely: for the sons of this world are for their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.

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

Hebrews 12:1Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set 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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