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but they did observe a bay with a beach, and they resolved to drive the ship onto it if they could. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/27-40.htm" target="_top"><b>40</b></a></span>And casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea while at the same time they were loosening the ropes of the rudders; and hoisting the foresail to the wind, they were heading for the beach. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/27-41.htm" target="_top"><b>41</b></a></span>But striking a reef where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground; and the prow stuck fast and remained immovable, but the stern <i>began</i> to be broken up by the force <i>of the waves.</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/27-42.htm" target="_top"><b>42</b></a></span>The soldiers plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none <i>of them</i> would swim away and escape; <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/27-43.htm" target="_top"><b>43</b></a></span>but the centurion, wanting to bring Paul safely through, kept them from their intention, and commanded that those who could swim should jump overboard first and get to land, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/27-44.htm" target="_top"><b>44</b></a></span>and the rest <i>should follow,</i> some on planks, and others on various things from the ship. And so it happened that they all were brought safely to land. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/acts/27.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And when he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all; and he brake it, and began to eat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/acts/27.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And when he had said these things, taking bread, he gave thanks to God in the sight of them all; and when he had broken it, he began to eat. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/acts/27.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And, having said these things and taken a loaf, he gave thanks to God before all, and having broken it began to eat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/acts/27.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And when he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all: and he brake it, and began to eat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/acts/27.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all; and when he had broken it, he began to eat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/acts/27.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />Having said this he took some bread, and, after giving thanks to God for it before them all, he broke it in pieces and began to eat it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/acts/27.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and he broke it, and began to eat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/acts/27.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and having said these things, and having taken bread, he gave thanks to God before all, and having broken it, he began to eat;<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/a_short_confession_of_faith.htm">A Short Confession of Faith</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'...There stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve.'--ACTS xxvii. 23. I turn especially to those last words, 'Whose I am and whom I serve.' A great calamity, borne by a crowd of men in common, has a wonderful power of dethroning officials and bringing the strong man to the front. So it is extremely natural, though it has been thought to be very unhistorical, that in this story of Paul's shipwreck he should become guide, counsellor, inspirer, and a tower of strength; and <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/a_short_confession_of_faith.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/a_total_wreck_all_hands.htm">A Total Wreck, all Hands Saved</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship, 31. Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved. 32. Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off. 33. And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/a_total_wreck_all_hands.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/tempest_and_trust.htm">Tempest and Trust</a><br></span><span class="snippet">And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete. 14. But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon. 15. And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive. 16. And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat: 17. Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/tempest_and_trust.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cunningham/the_ordinance_of_covenanting/chapter_xv_seasons_of_covenanting.htm">Seasons of Covenanting. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">The duty is never unsuitable. Men have frequently, improperly esteemed the exercise as one that should be had recourse to, only on some great emergency. But as it is sinful to defer religious exercises till affliction, presenting the prospect of death, constrain to attempt them, so it is wrong to imagine, that the pressure of calamity principally should constrain to make solemn vows. The exercise of personal Covenanting should be practised habitually. The patriot is a patriot still; and the covenanter <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cunningham/the_ordinance_of_covenanting/chapter_xv_seasons_of_covenanting.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Cunningham—</span><span class="citation2">The Ordinance of Covenanting</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_acts_of_the_apostles/lesson_42_the_voyage_and.htm">The Voyage and Shipwreck</a><br></span><span class="snippet">[This chapter is based on Acts 27; 28:1-10.] At last Paul was on his way to Rome. "When it was determined," Luke writes, "that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus' band. And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia; one Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us." In the first century of the Christian Era traveling by sea was attended with peculiar hardship <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_acts_of_the_apostles/lesson_42_the_voyage_and.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Acts of the Apostles</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/smith/the_life_of_william_carey/chapter_x_the_wyclif_of.htm">The Wyclif of the East --Bible Translation</a><br></span><span class="snippet">1801-1832 The Bible Carey's missionary weapon--Other vernacular translators--Carey's modest but just description of his labours--His philological key--Type-cutting and type-casting by a Hindoo blacksmith--The first manufacture of paper and steam-engines in the East--Carey takes stock of the translation work at the opening of 1808--In his workshop--A seminary of Bible translators--William Yates, shoemaker, the Coverdale of the Bengali Bible--Wenger--A Bengali Luther wanted--Carey's Bengali Bible--How <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/smith/the_life_of_william_carey/chapter_x_the_wyclif_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">George Smith—</span><span class="citation2">The Life of William Carey</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bayly/the_practice_of_piety/of_the_practice_of_piety.htm">Of the Practice of Piety in Fasting. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">There are divers kinds of fasting--First, A constrained fast, as when men either have not food to eat, as in the famine of Samaria (2 Kings vi. 25;) or, having food, cannot eat it for heaviness or sickness, as it befel them who were in the ship with St. Paul (Acts xxvii. 33.) This is rather famine than fasting. Secondly, A natural fast, which we undertake physically, for the health of our body. Thirdly, A civil fast, which the magistrate enjoins for the better maintenance of the commonwealth. Fourthly, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bayly/the_practice_of_piety/of_the_practice_of_piety.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Lewis Bayly—</span><span class="citation2">The Practice of Piety</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/orr/the_gospel_day_/chapter_xi_spiritual_culture.htm">Spiritual Culture. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son." 1 John 5:11. There is eternal life in Jesus, but for man to come into possession of this life he must comply with the requirements made by the Bible. After getting into possession of this life there are certain duties which man must faithfully perform to retain and develop it. After entering the wide fields of grace development is necessary. "But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/orr/the_gospel_day_/chapter_xi_spiritual_culture.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Ebert Orr—</span><span class="citation2">The Gospel Day </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/wesley/sermons_on_several_occasions/sermon_27_upon_our_lords.htm">Upon Our Lord's SermonOn the Mount</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Discourse 7 "Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: And thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly." Matthew 6:16-18. 1. It has been the endeavour of Satan, from the beginning of the world, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/wesley/sermons_on_several_occasions/sermon_27_upon_our_lords.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Wesley—</span><span class="citation2">Sermons on Several Occasions</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/the_life_and_times_of_jesus_the_messiah/appendix_xv_the_location_of.htm">Appendix xv. The Location of Sychar, and the Date of Our Lord's visit to Samaria. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. The Location of Sychar. Although modern writers are now mostly agreed on this subject, it may be well briefly to put before our readers the facts of the case. Till comparitively lately, the Sychar of St. John iv. was generally as representing the ancient Shechem. The first difficulty here was the name, since Shechem, or even Sichem, could scarcely be identified with Sychar, which is undoubtedly the correct reading. Accordingly, the latter term was represented as one of oppobrium, and derived from <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/the_life_and_times_of_jesus_the_messiah/appendix_xv_the_location_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alfred Edersheim—</span><span class="citation2">The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_riches_of_bunyan/xi_conversion.htm">Conversion. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">THE DIFFICULTY OF CONVERSION. CONVERSION to God is not so easy and so smooth a thing, as some would have men believe it is. Why is man's heart compared to fallow ground, God's word to a plough, and his ministers to ploughmen, if the heart indeed has no need of breaking in order to the receiving of the seed of God unto eternal life? Why is the conversion of the the soul compared to the grafting of a tree, if that be done without cutting? CONVERSION THE POWER OF GOD. A broken heart is the handy-work <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_riches_of_bunyan/xi_conversion.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Bunyan—</span><span class="citation2">The Riches of Bunyan</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/acts/27-35.htm">Acts 27:35 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/acts/27-35.htm">Acts 27:35 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/acts/27-35.htm">Acts 27:35 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/acts/27-35.htm">Acts 27:35 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/acts/27-35.htm">Acts 27:35 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/acts/27-35.htm">Acts 27:35 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/acts/27-35.htm">Acts 27:35 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../acts/27-34.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Acts 27:34"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Acts 27:34" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../acts/27-36.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Acts 27:36"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Acts 27:36" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/acts/27-35.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>