Acts 27:41
“And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners,.... Paul, and the rest: this they had not only an inclination to,…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
And falling - Being carried by the wind and waves. Into a place where two seas met - Greek: into a place of a double sea…
Adam ClarkeMethodist theologian, 1762–1832
Where two seas meet - The tide running down from each side of the tongue of land, mentioned Act 27:39, and meeting at…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Acts 27:21-44
We have here the issue of the distress of Paul and his fellow-travellers; they escaped with their lives and that was…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
And falling into a place where two seas met The conjunction should here be rendered adversatively "But." The verse goes…
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