Acts 27:19

and on the third day with their own hands they threw overboard the tackling of the ship;

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

18And we being tossed violently by the storm, they were successively making the casting out,

20and neither sun nor stars appearing for many days, and there being no small tempest on us, finally all hope of saving us was taken away.

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Cross References

Mark 8:35For whosoever may wish to save his soul shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his soul for my sake and that of the 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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