Acts 27:18

We were being so violently battered by the storm that the next day they began to jettison things,

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

17when they had hoisted it aboard, they used cables to undergird the ship; and fearing that they might fall into the Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor and so were driven along.

19and on the third we threw off the ship's tackle 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 life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Luke 16:8The master even ‘commended’ the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly. The sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of the Light.

Acts 27:38So when they had eaten enough, they started lightening the ship by throwing out the wheat into the sea.

Hebrews 12:1So then, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we too must run with endurance the race that is set before us, laying aside every impediment and the sin that so easily ensnares,

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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