Acts 27:38

38 With the meal finished and everyone full, the ship was further lightened by dumping the grain overboard.

Acts 27:38 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 27:38

And when they had eaten enough
] Were satisfied, having eaten a full meal:

they lightened the ship;
of its burden, that it might the better carry them to the shore, and that by the following method:

and cast out the wheat into the sea;
which seems to have been part of the ship's provision; or one part of their lading, which they brought from Egypt, and were carrying to Italy: they had cast out some of the goods of the ship before, and also the tackling of the ship, and now, last of all, the wheat; for what was eatable they reserved till last, not knowing to what extremity they might be reduced.

Acts 27:38 In-Context

36 and they all ate heartily -

37 two hundred seventy-six of us, all told!

38 With the meal finished and everyone full, the ship was further lightened by dumping the grain overboard.

39 At daybreak, no one recognized the land - but then they did notice a bay with a nice beach. They decided to try to run the ship up on the beach.

40 They cut the anchors, loosed the tiller, raised the sail, and ran before the wind toward the beach.