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Acts 27:36

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They were all encouraged and took some food themselves.

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ASV

Then were they all of good cheer, and themselves also took food.

KJV

Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat.

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This verse in Acts 27

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Ammonius of Alexandria

CATENA ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 27.35-36 · Written before 300.

"He took bread, and giving thanks to God in the presence of all, he broke it and began to eat." Since Paul saw that they had believed out of necessity and that the time was not opportune to announce Christ to them, as they were …

This site's exposition

Paul besought them all to take meat

on Acts 27:33-38

While the day was coming on Paul besought them all to take meat, fourteen days of fear having kept the whole company from food, and his argument is bodily and kind, this is for your health, with the promise made proverb, there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you. He took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: a Jewish grace said before pagan sailors and soldiers, and the bench reads the scene's power in its ordinariness, gratitude as testimony, and declines to make the meal a sacrament the text does not describe. Then were they all of good cheer, two hundred threescore and sixteen souls counted with a purser's precision, and when they had eaten they lighten the ship of her wheat cargo, spending the freight to save the lives, the exact inversion of the counsel that sailed from Fair Havens.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

John Chrysostom

Homily on Acts 53 · Written in the 5th century.

proposed

And he exhorts them again to take some meat, and they do as he bids them, and he takes some first, to persuade them not by word, but also by act, that the storm did them no harm, but rather was a benefit to their souls. Observe, his giving thanks after all that had happened strengthened them. For this showed an assured mind that they would be saved. "Then were they all of good cheer; and they also took some meat." And not only so, but henceforth they so cast all their care upon Paul, that they even cast out the corn, being so many.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

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.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat--"took food"; the first full meal since the commencement of the gale. Such courage in desperate circumstances as Paul here showed is wonderfully infectious.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

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).

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The words behind it

8 Greek words

Every Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • εὔθυμοιEncouraged

    euthumoiG2115 →

  • δὲthen

    deG1161 →2765 times

  • γενόμενοιhaving been

    genomenoiG1096 →667 times

  • πάντεςall

    pantesG3956 →1235 times

  • καὶalso

    kaiG2532 →9120 times

  • αὐτοὶthemselves

    autoiG846 →5565 times

  • προσελάβοντοthey took

    proselabontoG4355 →12 times

  • τροφῆς·food;

    trophesG5160 →16 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Psalms 27:14

    Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 40:31

      But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.

    • Psalms 31:24

      Be strong and courageous, all you who hope in the LORD.

    • Isaiah 30:18

      Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.

    • Psalms 37:34

      Wait for the LORD and keep His way, and He will raise you up to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you will see it.

    • Psalms 130:5

      I wait for the LORD; my soul does wait, and in His word I put my hope.

  • Through

    Acts 27:25

    So take courage, men, for I believe God that it will happen just as He told me.

    it leads to

    • Romans 4:20–21

      Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,

    • Luke 1:45

      Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord’s word to her will be fulfilled.”

  • Through

    Acts 27:22

    But now I urge you to keep up your courage, because you will not experience any loss of life, but only of the ship.

    it leads to

    • Acts 27:25

      So take courage, men, for I believe God that it will happen just as He told me.

Where this verse is studied

About Acts

The Ascension, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Ascension, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Acts: the study guide →Read Acts 27 →

This page draws on Ammonius of Alexandria, CATENA ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 27.35-36; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Chrysostom, Homily on Acts 53; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and William Ramsay, St. Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen.

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