Acts 27:18
The next day when we were tossed with an exceeding tempest, they lightened the ship.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;
In Context
19And the third day we cast out with our owne hands the tackling of the ship.
Cross References
Psalms 107:27They are tossed to and from, and stagger like a drunken man, and all their cunning is gone.
Matthew 16:26For what shall it profite a man though he should winne the whole worlde, if hee lose his owne soule? or what shall a man giue for recompence of his soule?
Luke 16:8And the Lord commended the vniust stewarde, because he had done wisely. Wherefore the children of this worlde are in their generation wiser then the children of light.
Acts 27:38And whe they had eaten ynough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
Hebrews 12:1Wherefore, let vs also, seeing that we are compassed with so great a cloude of witnesses, cast away euery thing that presseth downe, and the sinne that hangeth so fast on: let vs runne with patience the race that is set before vs,
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 →