Acts 27:19
On the third day, they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.
In Context
18We were tossed so violently that the next day the men began to jettison the cargo.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 3:6a time to search and a time to count as lost, a time to keep and a time to discard,
Mark 8:35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and for the gospel will 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 →