Then they all cheered up, and they also took food.
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Then they all cheered up, and they also took food.
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Then were they all of good cheare and they also toke meate.
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Then were they all of good courage, and they also tooke meate.
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- 2 Corinthians 1:4-6 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ. But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
- Psalms 27:14 Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.
- Acts 27:22 Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.
- Acts 27:25 Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 36 Then were they all of good cheer, and…
36 Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat.
Ver. 36. Then were they all of good cheer] By Paul’s good example. For as one bad man may hinder much good, Ecc 9:18, so on the contrary.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Believing Paul’s words, promising in the name of that…
Believing Paul’s words, promising in the name of that God whom he served, that they should all be preserved; believing, they did rejoice. Now Paul, a prisoner, a neglected and contemned person, comes to be valued and credited. Whilst they sailed with a prosperous gale, neither God, nor his poor prisoner and chained apostle, is thought upon; but in a storm or tempest they are glad to believe and follow his direction. God’s stars shine in the night, and are seen in affliction.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And we were in all in the ship,.... Reckoning…
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.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Then they were all encouraged - By his example,…
Then they were all encouraged - By his example, as well as words.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Then were they all of good cheer, and they…
Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat--"took food"; the first full meal since the commencement of the gale. Such courage in desperate circumstances as Paul here showed is wonderfully infectious.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 36. Of good cheer—Revived hope revived the appetite.
36. Of good cheer—Revived hope revived the appetite.
Meat—Food.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 36. all of good cheer] Paul’s hopeful spirit had…
36. all of good cheer] Paul’s hopeful spirit had breathed hope into the whole company, and doubtless the religious character infused into the meal was not without a calming influence.
took some meat] The “some” of the A. V. seems warranted by the genitive case in the original, and is therefore to be preferred to the “took food” of the R. V.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (36) Then were they all of good cheer.—The words…
(36) Then were they all of good cheer.—The words present a striking contrast to the despair of Act_27:20. The hearty cheerfulness (is it too colloquial a phrase to say the “pluck”?) of the Apostle had communicated itself, as by a kind of electric sympathy, to his companions. They looked to him as their friend and leader, and had spirits to eat once more.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Themselves also took food for they also took some…
Themselves also took food for they also took some meat, A.V.. Of good cheer (euqumoi); see above, vers. 22, 25, notes.
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J. W. McGarvey 1914 · Public Domain See notes on verse 33
See notes on verse 33
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Then they were all encouraged
Then they were all encouraged
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We were 276 people in the ship
"We were two hundred and seventy-six people in the ship." This is background information. (See: Numbers and Background Information)
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wheat
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 27:36-37 The food brought renewed strength and encouragement to…
27:36-37 The food brought renewed strength and encouragement to the frightened and exhausted crew and prisoners. • all 276 of us: The exact number of persons onboard fits well with what is known of grain ships of the period.
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