Acts 27:19

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

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

In The King James Version

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

In Context

18And while there rose against us the hard tempest, the next day we threw the goods into the sea.

20and neither the sun was seen, nor the moon, nor stars, the hope that we should be saved at all was cut off.

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Cross References

Mark 8:35For every one who willeth to save his life shall lose it; and every one who shall lose his life on account of me and on account of my gospel, shall 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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