Acts 27:18

18 We took such a violent battering from the storm that the next day they began to throw the cargo overboard.

Acts 27:18 in Other Translations

18 And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;

18 Since we were violently storm-tossed, they began the next day to jettison the cargo.

18 The next day, as gale-force winds continued to batter the ship, the crew began throwing the cargo overboard.

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

18 Because we were being severely battered by the storm, they began to jettison the cargo the next day.

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 As we passed to the lee of a small island called Cauda, we were hardly able to make the lifeboat secure,

17 so the men hoisted it aboard. Then they passed ropes under the ship itself to hold it together. Because they were afraid they would run aground on the sandbars of Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor and let the ship be driven along.

18 We took such a violent battering from the storm that the next day they began to throw the cargo overboard.

19 On the third day, they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands.

20 When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the storm continued raging, we finally gave up all hope of being saved.

Cross References

• 1. ver 19,38; John 1:5