Acts 27:33
31 But Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men remain with the ship, you cannot be saved.”
32 So the soldiers cut the ropes to the lifeboat and set it adrift.
Right up to daybreak, Paul kept urging them all to eat: “Today is your fourteenth day in constant suspense, without taking any food.
34 So for your own preservation, I urge you to eat something, because not a single hair of your head will be lost.”
35 After he had said this, Paul took bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all. Then he broke it and began to eat.
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.
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- BSB
- Right up to daybreak, Paul kept urging them all to eat: “Today is your fourteenth day in constant suspense, without taking any food.
- KJV
- And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
- WEB
- While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.
- ASV
- And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take some food, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.
- DARBY
- And while it was drawing on to daylight, Paul exhorted them all to partake of food, saying, Ye have passed the fourteenth day watching in expectation without taking food.
- BLB
- And until that day was about to come, Paul kept urging all to partake of food, saying, “Today [is] the fourteenth day you⁺ continue waiting without eating, having taken nothing.
- ÅB
- Da det nå led mot dag, ba Paulus alle ta føde til seg, og han sa: Dette er nå den fjortende dag at dere venter og lar være å spise og ikke tar noe til dere.
- OTB
- Rett før daggry oppmuntret Paulus dem alle til å spise. "I de siste fjorten dagene," sa han, "har dere vært i konstant spenning og har gått uten mat—dere har ikke spist noe.
- B1930
- Da det nu led mot dag, bad Paulus alle ta føde til sig, og han sa: Dette er nu den fjortende dag at I venter og lar være å ete og ikke tar noget til eder.