19And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.
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And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
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.
For 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. …
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. …
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 d…
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