Acts 27:24 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Acts 27:24

22 And now I urge you to take heart, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

23 ^aFor there stood by me this night an angel of the God to whom I belong and ^bwhom I serve,

24 saying, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must be brought before Caesar; and indeed God has granted you all those who sail with you.’

25 Therefore take heart, men, ^afor I believe God that it will be just as it was told me.

26 However, ^awe must run aground on a certain island.”

27 Now when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven up and down in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors sensed that they were drawing near some land.

28 And they took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and when they had gone a little farther, they took soundings again and found it to be fifteen fathoms.

29 Then, fearing lest we should run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern, and¹ prayed for day to come.

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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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But after long abstinence—(See on Acts 27:33). "The hardships which the crew endured during a gale of such continuance, and their exhaustion from laboring at the pumps and hunger, may be imagined, but are not described" [SMITH].

Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened to me, etc.—not meaning to reflect on them for the past, but to claim their confidence for what he was now to say:

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