30And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
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And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat:
Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-44)We have here the issue of the distress of Paul and his fellow-travellers; they escaped with their lives and that was all, and that was for Paul’s sake. We are here told (Acts 27:37) what number there were on board—mariners, merchants, soldiers, prisoners, and other passengers, in all two hundred and seventy-six souls; this is taken notice of to make us the more concerned for them in reading the st…
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