Acts 27:18

And because we were exceedingly tempest-tossed, the next day they lightened the ship.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17And having hoisted it up, they used cables for undergirding the ship; and being afraid lest they run aground in the Syrtes Shallows, they let down the driving anchor, thus they were being driven along by the wind.

19And on the third day we threw off the equipment of the ship with our own hands.

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Cross References

Matthew 16:26For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, but forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Luke 16:8So the master praised the unrighteous manager because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of light.

Acts 27:38And having eaten enough, they began lightening the ship and throwing out the wheat into the sea.

Hebrews 12:1So therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every impediment, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance 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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