Acts 27:18
As we laboured exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard.
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In The King James Version
And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;
In Context
19On the third day, they threw out the ship’s tackle with their own hands.
Cross References
Psalms 107:27They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.
Matthew 16:26For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
Luke 16:8“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.
Acts 27:38When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.
Hebrews 12:1Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set 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 →