Acts 27:20

When the sun and stars did not shine on us for many days, and the great storm still beat upon us, any more hope that we should be saved was abandoned.

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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.

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19On the third day the sailors threw overboard the ship's equipment with their own hands.

21When they had gone long without food, then Paul stood up among the sailors and said, “Men, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, so as to get this injury and loss.

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Cross References

Exodus 10:21Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Reach out with your hand toward the sky, so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, darkness that may be felt.”

Psalms 107:25For he commanded and aroused the windstorm 1 that stirs up the seas. 1

Jeremiah 2:25You must restrain your feet from becoming bare and your throat from being thirsty! 1 But you have said, 'It is hopeless! No, I love strangers and go after them!' 1

Jonah 1:4But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea and it became a mighty storm on the sea. Soon it appeared that the ship was going to be broken up.

Matthew 8:24Behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves. But Jesus was asleep.

2 Corinthians 11:25Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a night and a day on the open sea.

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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