Acts 27:18

18 Next day, out on the high seas again and badly damaged now by the storm, we dumped 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 We came under the lee of the small island named Clauda, and managed to get a lifeboat ready and reef the sails.

17 But rocky shoals prevented us from getting close. We only managed to avoid them by throwing out drift anchors.

18 Next day, out on the high seas again and badly damaged now by the storm, we dumped the cargo overboard.

19 The third day the sailors lightened the ship further by throwing off all the tackle and provisions.

20 It had been many days since we had seen either sun or stars. Wind and waves were battering us unmercifully, and we lost all hope of rescue.