Acts 27:18

And while there rose against us the hard tempest, the next day we threw the goods into the sea.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;

In Context

17And when we had uplifted her, we girded and strengthened the ship. And because we feared lest we should fall into the precipitancy of the sea, we brought down the sails, and so went forward.i

19And the third day the things of the ship itself we cast forth. And when the storm had held more days,

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Cross References

Matthew 16:26For what shall a man be profited, if the whole world he shall acquire, and his soul shall perish? or what equivalent shall a man give for his soul?

Luke 16:8And praised our Lord the house-chief who was unjust, in that he had done wisely; for the sons of this world are wiser than the sons of light in this their generation.

Acts 27:38And when they were satisfied with food, they lightened the ship, and took up the wheat and sent it into the sea.

Hebrews 12:1Wherefore we also, having all these witnesses, who as clouds encompass us, will set ourselves loose from every weight, and the sin which at all time is prepared for us, and with perseverance will we run this race which is appointed to 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 →

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