Acts 27:33-37

All on board needed to eat to gain strength for the work of getting ashore that lay ahead. Paul gave thanks to God publicly for the food (cf. 1 Timothy 4:4-5). This would have helped all present to connect their deliverance with God. This meal was evidently not a celebration of the Lord’s Supper, as some commentators suggested. [Note: E.g., Neil, p. 252.] The circumstances of the occasion argue against this view as does the terminology Luke used (Acts 27:35; cf. Luke 24:30). The rest of the people followed Paul’s example and ate too.

"It could never be said of Paul as it was said of some people that ’they were so heavenly minded that they were of no earthly use.’ He knew that hungry men are not efficient men; and so he gathered the ship’s company around him and made them eat." [Note: Barclay, p. 204.]