Acts 27:18

But, we being exceedingly tempest-tossed, on the next day, they began to throw [cargo] overboard;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;

In Context

17which, hoisting up, they began to use, helps, under-girding the ship; and, fearing lest, on the sand-bank of Africa, they should run aground, lowering the gear, so, were they borne along.

19and, on the third day, with their own hands, the tackling of the ship, they cast away.

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Cross References

Psalms 107:27They reel and stagger, like a drunken man, and, all their wisdom, is engulfed,

Matthew 16:26For what shall a man be profited, though, the whole world, he gain, and, his life, he forfeit? Or what shall a man give, in exchange for his life?

Luke 16:8And the lord praised the unrighteous steward, in that with forethought he acted:—Because, the sons of this age, have more forethought than the sons of light, respecting their own generation.

Acts 27:38And, when they were satisfied with food, they began lightening the ship, casting out the wheat into the sea.

Hebrews 12:1Therefore, indeed, seeing that, we also, have encircling us, so great a cloud of witnesses, stripping off every incumbrance and the easily entangling sin, with endurance, let us be running, the race that is lying before us,

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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