Acts 27:19

and on the third day with their own hands they threw the ship’s tackling overboard.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

18And as we were being terribly battered by the storm, the next day they began to throw the freight overboard,

20Then when for many days neither sun nor stars were seen, and a great tempest still beat upon us, all hope that we should be saved was now taken away from us.

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Cross References

Mark 8:35For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever, for my sake and the gospel’s, loses his life will 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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