Acts 27:32

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

So, the soldiers cut the ropes securing the life-boat and let it drift away.

Cross References

Luke 16:8

So, his master commended the dishonest property manager for his shrewdness. For worldly people are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of light [i.e., God’s people].

John 2:15

Then Jesus made a whip out of strands of rope and drove all of the sheep and oxen out of the Temple [area], dumped out the cashiers’ money and overturned their tables.

Acts 27:31

Paul said to the military officer [Julius] and to his soldiers, “Unless these men stay aboard the ship, none of you will be saved.”

Acts 27:33

As it was dawning, Paul urged them [i.e., the crew, soldiers and probably the passengers] to eat something, saying, “You have been waiting for fourteen days [for the weather to break] and you have continued to fast [all that time], eating nothing [at all].