Acts 27:18

We were tossed so violently that the next day the men began to jettison the cargo.

BSB

Parallel translations

4 additional translations

▾

KJV

And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;

ASV

And as we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw the freight overboard;

YLT

And we, being exceedingly tempest-tossed, the succeeding day they were making a clearing,

DBT

But the storm being extremely violent on us, on the next day they threw cargo overboard,

⋯

Commentary voices

loading…

Voices2

On this verse

And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest,.... Sometimes being lifted up as it were to the heavens, and then presently sinking down, as if they were going into the bottom of the sea; such a condition at sea is described to the life by the Psalmist, in Psa 107:25. the next day they lightened the ship; of its burden, its lading, the goods and merchandise that were in it; as the mariners did in the ship in which Jonah was, Jon 1:5 the Ethiopic version renders it, "they cast the goods into the sea"; the Arabic version, the "merchandise".

John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed

Related commentary

Lightened the ship - Of what, we know not; but it was probably cumbrous wares, by which the deck was thronged, and which were prejudicial to the due trim of the vessel.

Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical

Voices on this verse

loading…

Rabbinic commentary

How the Hebraic tradition has read this verse — and Marcus Brown’s own reading of it.

Cross-references

12 linked verses

The verses this one reaches12

Jonah 1:5
The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load. But Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.
Acts 27:38
After the men had eaten their fill, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.
Matthew 16:26
What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
Luke 12:23
For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.
Acts 27:19
On the third day, they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands.
Isaiah 54:11
“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.
Philippians 3:7–8
But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
Luke 16:8
The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.
Mark 13:15
Let no one on the housetop go back inside to retrieve anything from his house.
Psalms 107:27
They reeled and staggered like drunkards, and all their skill was useless.
Job 2:4
“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.

Cross-references

loading…

The quotation web

loading…

Original language

loading…

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set…
leads to
- 2 Timothy 4:7
  I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
- 1 Corinthians 9:24–27
  Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.
- Philippians 2:16
  as you hold forth the word of life, in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.
- Luke 21:34
  But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
- Hebrews 10:35–39
  So do not throw away your confidence; it holds a great reward.
Through
Matthew 16:26
What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
leads to
- Job 27:8
  For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
- Mark 8:36–37
  What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?
- Luke 9:25
  What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

Where the connections lead

loading…

Continue: Acts 27 →