Acts 27:34

Therefore I entreat you, to take food for the sustenance of your life; for not a hair from the head of any of you, will perish.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.

In Context

33And while it was not yet morning, Paul advised them all to take food, saying to them: In consequence of the peril, it is now the fourteenth day that ye have tasted nothing.

35And having said these things, he took bread, and gave glory to God before them all; and he broke it, and began to eat.

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Cross References

Matthew 15:32Then Jesus called his disciples, and said to them: I pity this multitude; for lo, these three days they have continued with me, and they have nothing to eat: and I am unwilling to send them away fasting, lest they faint by the way.

Luke 12:7And as for you, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; for ye are superior to many sparrows.

Philippians 2:5And think ye so in yourselves, as Jesus the Messiah also thought;

Matthew Henry on Acts 27:22-44

Paul's Voyage towards Rome. 21 But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. 22 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship. 23 For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, 24 Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Cæsar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them… Read the whole commentary →

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