Acts 27:16-19
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Other commentaries on this verse
- John Gill - Exposition - Acts 27:16
- John Gill - Exposition - Acts 27:17
- John Gill - Exposition - Acts 27:18
- John Gill - Exposition - Acts 27:19
- Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Acts 27
- Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Acts 27:16-21
Acts 27:16-19. And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat: which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest the should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven. And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship; and the third day we cast out with our own hands the tacking of the ship.
They used all the means in their power, and evidently Paul and his companions took their full share of the work that had to be done: "we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship."