Acts 27:37 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁷And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.

Acts 27:37 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 2:41
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
1 Peter 3:20
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Romans 13:1
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Acts 7:14
Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

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Boat Inspiration Mariners (sailors)Prognostication Prophecy Revelation Ship

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. 37)

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…