Acts 27:18
So violently were we tossed about by the storm, that the next day they began throwing the cargo overboard,
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;
In Context
19and, on the following day, threw out the ship’s tackle with their own hands.
Cross References
Psalms 107:27They staggered and reeled like drunkards; all their skills useless.
Matthew 16:26What good will it do a person to gain the whole world, if he forfeits his life? Or what will a person give that is of equal value with his life?
Luke 16:8His master complimented this dishonest steward on the shrewdness of his action. And indeed men of the world are shrewder in dealing with their fellow men than those who have the light.
Acts 27:38After satisfying their hunger, they further lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.
Hebrews 12:1Seeing, therefore, that there is on every side of us such a throng of witnesses, let us also lay aside everything that hinders us, and the sin that clings about us, and run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,
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 →