Acts 27:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;

Acts 27:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
Acts 27:38
And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
Hebrews 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,
Matthew 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?
Acts 27:19
And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-20)

In these verses we have, I. The ship putting to sea again, and pursuing her voyage at first with a promising gale. Observe, 1. What induced them to leave the fair havens: it was because they thought the harbour not commodious to winter in; it was pleasant enough in summer but in the winter they lay bleak. Or perhaps it was upon some other account incommodious; provisions perhaps were scarce and de…