On the third day, they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands.
Parallel translations
- WEB On the third day, they threw out the ship’s tackle with their own hands.
- KJV And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.
- NKJV On the third day we threw the ship’s tackle overboard with our own hands.
- NASB and on the third day they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands.
- NLT The following day they even took some of the ship’s gear and threw it overboard.
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On the third day they throw out the ship's tackle with their own hands.
Overview
The crew sacrifices even the ship's equipment, a sign of growing desperation. Their hands-on labor conveys the extremity of the crisis. As human resources are stripped away one by one, the stage is set for deliverance to come not from themselves but from the God whom Paul serves.
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Cross-references · 4
- Job 2:4“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.
- Luke 9:24–25For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.
- Jonah 1:5The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load. But Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.
- Mark 8:35–37For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and for the gospel will save it.
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