37And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
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.
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.
Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
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…
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