Acts 27:34

Therefore I urge you to take food, for this is for your deliverance; for not a hair from your head shall fall.”

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.

In Context

33And until the time was about to be day, Paul was urging them all to receive their share of food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day you continue waiting without eating, having taken nothing.

35And having said these things and having taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and having broken it, he began to eat.

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Cross References

Matthew 15:32Now Jesus, having summoned His disciples, He said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been remaining with Me three days, and they do not have anything to eat. And I do not desire to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.”

Luke 12:7But the very hairs of your head have all been numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows. 1 Whoever Confesses Christ

Philippians 2:5Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

Matthew Henry on Acts 27:22-44

Paul's Voyage towards Rome. 21 But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. 22 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship. 23 For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, 24 Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Cæsar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them… Read the whole commentary →

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