Acts 27:36 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁶Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat.

Acts 27:36 —

Old words in this verse

meat: — food of any kind.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 1:4-6
Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. …
Psalms 27:14
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Acts 27:22
And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship.
Acts 27:25
Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.

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Commentary

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 36)

33-37. while day was coming on--“until it should be day”; that is, in the interval between the cutting off of the boat and the approach of day, which all were “anxiously looking for” (Ac 27:29). Paul--now looked up to by all the passengers as the man to direct them. besought them all to take meat--“partake of a meal.” saying, This is the fourteenth day ye have tarried--“waited for a breathing time…