Key Verse Spotlight
Acts 27:32 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.”
Acts 27:32
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.
Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.
And while the day was coming on, Paul besought {them} all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
Wherefore I pray you to take {some} meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.
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