Acts 27:18
16 And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat:
17 Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.
And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;
19 And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.
20 And 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.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- We were tossed so violently that the next day the men began to jettison the cargo.
- KJV
- And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;
- WEB
- As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard.
- ASV
- And as we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw the [the freight] overboard;
- DARBY
- But the storm being extremely violent on us, on the next day they threw cargo overboard,
- BLB
- And [in] our being storm-tossed violently, on the next day they began to make a jettison of cargo,
- ÅB
- Da vi nå led meget ondt av været, kastet de neste dag ladningen overbord,
- OTB
- Neste dag, mens vi ble voldsomt kastet rundt av stormen, begynte de å kaste lasten overbord.
- B1930
- Da vi nu led meget ondt av været, kastet de næste dag ladningen overbord,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jonah 1:5
Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
Read in contextActs 27:38
And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
Read in contextHebrews 12:1
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Read in contextMatthew 16:26
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Read in contextActs 27:19
And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.
Read in contextPhilippians 3:7–8
But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
Read in contextLuke 16:8
And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
Read in contextPsalms 107:27
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.
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