Acts 27:19

and on the third we threw off the ship's tackle with our own hands.

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

20When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and a major storm was still pounding us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.

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Cross References

Mark 8:35Because whoever may resolve to ‘save’ his life will waste it; but whoever may ‘waste’ his life for my sake and the Gospel's, he 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 →

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