acts-27:33-44

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Acts 27:21-44

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 story, that they were such a considerable number, whose lives were now in the utmost jeopardy, and... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Acts 27:27-38

27:27-38 When the fourteenth night came and we were drifting across in the Adriatic, in the middle of the night the sailors suspected that some land was approaching them. They took a sounding and found twenty fathoms. Since they were afraid that they would be cast up on rough places they cast four anchors out of the stern and hoped for the day. When the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and were lowering the dinghy into the sea on the pretext of being about to send out anchors from... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Acts 27:39-44

27:39-44 When day came they did not recognize the land; but they saw a bay with a beach, on which they purposed, if it was possible, to run the ship ashore. They loosed the anchors and let them go into the sea and at the same time they loosed the lashings of the rudder paddles, and they set the foresail to the wind and made for the beach. When they were cast into a place where two seas met, they beached the ship; and the bow remained fast and immovable but the stern was being broken up by the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 27:33

And while the day was coming on ,.... Between midnight and break of day: Paul besought them all to take meat; to sit down and eat a meal together: saying, this day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried ; or have been waiting for, or expecting; that is, as the Arabic version expresses it, a shipwreck; for fourteen days past, ever since the storm begun, they had expected nothing but shipwreck and death: and continued fasting, having taken nothing : not that they had neither ate... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 27:34

Wherefore I pray you to take some meat ,.... To sit down composedly, and eat meat cheerfully and freely: for this is for your health ; the Alexandrian copy reads, "for our health"; it was for the health of them all, that they might be better able to bear the shock and fatigue of the shipwreck, and be in better spirits, and in a better capacity to help themselves, and one another: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you ; a proverbial phrase, expressing the utmost... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 27:35

And when he had thus spoken he took bread ,.... A piece of bread, of common bread, into his hands; for this could never be the eucharist, or Lord's supper, which the apostle now celebrated, as some have suggested, but such sort of bread that seafaring men commonly eat: mention is before made of "meat" or "food", which the apostle entreated them to take, which includes every sort of sea provisions they had with them; and which, with the ancients, were usually the following: it is certain they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 27:36

Then were they all of good cheer ,.... Encouraged by the apostle's words and example: and they all took some meat ; and made a comfortable meal, which they had not done for fourteen days past. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 27:37

And we were in all in the ship ,.... Reckoning the master and owner of the ship, and the centurion and the soldiers, and the apostle and his company, with whatsoever passengers there might be: two hundred and threescore and sixteen souls ; the Alexandrian copy reads, "two hundred seventy and five"; and the Ethiopic version, "two hundred and six". This account of the number is given to show, that the historian, who was one of them, had an exact knowledge of all in the ship; and this being... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 27:38

And when they had eaten enough ,.... Were satisfied, having eaten a full meal: they lightened the ship ; of its burden, that it might the better carry them to the shore, and that by the following method: and cast out the wheat into the sea ; which seems to have been part of the ship's provision; or one part of their lading, which they brought from Egypt, and were carrying to Italy: they had cast out some of the goods of the ship before, and also the tackling of the ship, and now,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 27:39

And when it was day they knew not the land ,.... What place it was, or the name of it: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore ; a gulf or bay, with a shore near it; the Ethiopic version explains it, an arm of the sea , where was a port, where they thought they could secure themselves, or get ashore: into which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship ; whither they had a mind, and consulted to run the ship, if it could be done by any means, believing... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Acts 27:21-44

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Acts 27:27-38

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Acts 27:39-44

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 27:33

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 27:34

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 27:35

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 27:36

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 27:37

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 27:38

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 27:39

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