Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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" (Acts 27:29).
Paul—now looked up to by all the passengers as the man to direct them.
besought them all to take meat—"partake of a meal."
saying, This is the fourteenth day ye have tarried—"waited for a breathing time."
having eaten nothing—that is, taken no regular meal. The impossibility of cooking, the occupation of all hands to keep down leakage, etc., sufficiently explain this, which is indeed a common occurrence in such cases.
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