Acts 27:19

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

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

18The next day when we were tossed with an exceeding tempest, they lightened the ship.

20And when neither sunne nor starres in many dayes appeared, and no small tempest lay vpon vs, all hope that we should be saued, was then taken away.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:6A time to seeke, and a time to lose: a time to keepe, and a time to cast away.

Mark 8:35For whosoeuer will saue his life, shall lose it: but whosoeuer shall lose his life for my sake and the Gospels, he shall saue 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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