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Acts 27:44 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" and the rest should follow, some on planks and some on other things from the ship. So they all escaped safely to the land. "

Acts 27:44

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42 The soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.

43 But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;

44 and the rest should follow, some on planks and some on other things from the ship. So they all escaped safely to the land.

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Genesis 8:19

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"Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship."

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Luke 5:11

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"When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him."

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Mark 4:36

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"Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him."

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John 6:21

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"They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going."

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Psalms 78:53

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"He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies."

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1 Corinthians 10:13

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"No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it."

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From This Chapter

Acts 27:1

"When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band."

Acts 27:2

"Embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica being with us."

Acts 27:3

"The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself."

Acts 27:4

"Putting to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary."

Acts 27:5

"When we had sailed across the sea which is off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia."

Acts 27:6

"There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy, and he put us on board."

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