Acts 27:20

We hadn't seen the sun or the stars for many days as the storm beat down on us; so any hope of our being saved was lost.

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In The King James Version

And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.

In Context

19On the third day they grabbed the ship's gear and tossed it into the sea.

21Nobody had eaten anything for a long time. Then Paul stood before them and told them, “Men, you should have listened to me and not sailed from Crete. Then you could have avoided all this hardship and loss.

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Cross References

Exodus 10:21The Lord told Moses, “Lift your hand toward the sky so that darkness will fall over Egypt, darkness so thick that it can be felt.”

Psalms 107:25He only had to speak to cause a stormy wind that stirred up towering waves,

Jeremiah 2:25You don't have to run around barefoot or have your throat go dry. But you reply, “No, it's impossible! I'm in love with foreign gods—I must go to them.”

Jonah 1:4But the Lord sent a terrible wind across the sea, creating a violent storm that threatened to break up the ship.

Matthew 8:24A violent storm suddenly blew up, and waves crashed over the boat, but Jesus went on sleeping.

2 Corinthians 11:25Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. Once I spent twenty-four hours adrift on the ocean.

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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