Acts 27:34

34 Now I urge you to take some food. You need it to survive. Not one of you will lose a single hair from his head.”

Acts 27:34 in Other Translations

34 Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.

34 Therefore I urge you to take some food. For it will give you strength, for not a hair is to perish from the head of any of you."

34 “Please eat something now for your own good. For not a hair of your heads will perish.”

34 But I urge you to eat something now. You'll need strength for the rescue ahead. You're going to come out of this without even a scratch!"

34 Therefore I urge you to take some food. For this has to do with your survival, since not a hair will be lost from the head of any of you."

Acts 27:34 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 27:34

Wherefore I pray you to take some meat
To sit down composedly, and eat meat cheerfully and freely:

for this is for your health;
the Alexandrian copy reads, "for our health"; it was for the health of them all, that they might be better able to bear the shock and fatigue of the shipwreck, and be in better spirits, and in a better capacity to help themselves, and one another:

for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you;
a proverbial phrase, expressing the utmost safety of their lives, and therefore might cheerfully eat their food, and rest themselves, and be satisfied. To dream of shaving the hair, portended shipwreck to sailors; nor was it lawful for any to pare his nails, or cut off his hair, but in a storm; to which custom, some think, the apostle here alludes ^F23; see ( 1 Samuel 14:45 ) ( 2 Samuel 14:11 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 Kirchman. de funer. Rom. l. 2. c. 14. p. 212, 213.

Acts 27:34 In-Context

32 So the soldiers cut the ropes that held the lifeboat and let it drift away.

33 Just before dawn Paul urged them all to eat. “For the last fourteen days,” he said, “you have been in constant suspense and have gone without food—you haven’t eaten anything.

34 Now I urge you to take some food. You need it to survive. Not one of you will lose a single hair from his head.”

35 After he said this, he took some bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all. Then he broke it and began to eat.

36 They were all encouraged and ate some food themselves.

Cross References

• 1. S Matthew 10:30