Acts 27:36

36 So they all were encouraged and partook of food themselves.

Acts 27:36 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 27:36

Then were they all of good cheer
Encouraged by the apostle's words and example:

and they all took some meat;
and made a comfortable meal, which they had not done for fourteen days past.

Acts 27:36 In-Context

34 Therefore I urge you to take [some] food, for this is necessary for your preservation. For not a hair from your head will be lost."

35 And [after he] said these [things] and took bread, he gave thanks to God in front of [them] all, and [after] breaking [it], he began to eat.

36 So they all were encouraged and partook of food themselves.

37 (Now we were [in] all two hundred seventy six persons on the ship.)

38 And [when they] had eaten their fill of food, they lightened the ship [by] throwing the wheat into the sea.

Footnotes

• [a] *Here this participle ("were") has been translated as a finite verb in keeping with English style