Actes 27:37

37 Nous étions, dans le navire, deux cent soixante-seize personnes en tout.

Actes 27:37 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 27:37

And we were in all in the ship
Reckoning the master and owner of the ship, and the centurion and the soldiers, and the apostle and his company, with whatsoever passengers there might be:

two hundred and threescore and sixteen souls;
the Alexandrian copy reads, "two hundred seventy and five"; and the Ethiopic version, "two hundred and six". This account of the number is given to show, that the historian, who was one of them, had an exact knowledge of all in the ship; and this being recorded before the account of the shipwreck, may serve to make the truth of the relation the more to be believed that none of them perished, since their number was so precisely known; and makes it the more marvellous, that such a number of men should be saved, and in a shipwreck; and shows, that there must be a wonderful interposition of divine power to bring them all safe to land.

Actes 27:37 In-Context

35 Ayant ainsi parlé, il prit du pain, et, après avoir rendu grâces à Dieu devant tous, il le rompit, et se mit à manger.

36 Et tous, reprenant courage, mangèrent aussi.

37 Nous étions, dans le navire, deux cent soixante-seize personnes en tout.

38 Quand ils eurent mangé suffisamment, ils allégèrent le navire en jetant le blé à la mer.

39 Lorsque le jour fut venu, ils ne reconnurent point la terre; mais, ayant aperçu un golfe avec une plage, ils résolurent d'y pousser le navire, s'ils le pouvaient.