Acts 27:19

and the third day we cast out with our own hands the movables of the ship.

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.

In Context

18And as we were violently tempest-tossed, the next day they began to lighten the vessel;

20And as neither sun nor stars had appeared for many days, and no small tempest lay on us, thenceforward all hope that we should be saved was taken away.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:6A time to seek, and a time to lose. A time to keep, and a time to cast away.

Mark 8:35For whoever chooseth to save his life, will lose it; but whoever shall lose his life for the sake of me and of the glad tidings, 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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