Acts 27:18

18 We were being pounded by the storm so violently that on the next day they began to throw the cargo overboard,

Acts 27:18 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 27:18

And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest
Sometimes being lifted up as it were to the heavens, and then presently sinking down, as if they were going into the bottom of the sea; such a condition at sea is described to the life by the Psalmist, in ( Psalms 107:25-27 ) .

the next day they lightened the ship;
of its burden, its lading, the goods and merchandise that were in it; as the mariners did in the ship in which Jonah was, ( Jonah 1:5 ) the Ethiopic version renders it, "they cast the goods into the sea"; the Arabic version, the "merchandise".

Acts 27:18 In-Context

16 By running under the lee of a small island called Cauda we were scarcely able to get the ship's boat under control.

17 After hoisting it up they took measures to undergird the ship; then, fearing that they would run on the Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor and so were driven.

18 We were being pounded by the storm so violently that on the next day they began to throw the cargo overboard,

19 and on the third day with their own hands they threw the ship's tackle overboard.

20 When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest raged, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.