Acts 27:19

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

Updated King James Version

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

20And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:6A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

Mark 8:35For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same 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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