Acts 27:28 Parallel Translations

So they threw a line with a weight on it into the water. It sank 120 feet. They waited a little while and did the same thing again. This time the line sank 90 feet.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.

ASV:

and they sounded, and found twenty fathoms; and after a little space, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms.

BBE:

And they let down the lead, and saw that the sea was a hundred and twenty feet deep; and after a little time they did it again and it was ninety feet.

DBY:

and having sounded found twenty fathoms, and having gone a little farther and having again sounded they found fifteen fathoms;

ERV:

and they sounded, and found twenty fathoms: and after a little space, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms.

WEY:

So they hove the lead and found twenty fathoms of water; and after a short time they hove again and found fifteen fathoms.

WBS:

And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.

WEB:

They took soundings, and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.

YLT:

and having sounded they found twenty fathoms, and having gone a little farther, and again having sounded, they found fifteen fathoms,

Acts 27:28 Cross References

XREF:

Acts 27:27 But when the fourteenth night came, as we were being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors began to surmise that they were approaching some land.

Acts 27:29 Fearing that we might run aground somewhere on the rocks, they cast four anchors from the stern and wished for daybreak. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

27:28 Sounded, and found [it] twenty fathoms. One hundred and twenty feet. The shallowness showed that they approached a coast, especially as it grew shallower every time the lead was cast.

MHC:

27:21-29 They did not hearken to the apostle when he warned them of their danger; yet if they acknowledge their folly, and repent of it, he will speak comfort and relief to them when in danger. Most people bring themselves into trouble, because they do not know when they are well off; they come to harm and loss by aiming to mend their condition, often against advice. Observe the solemn profession Paul made of relation to God. No storms or tempests can hinder God's favour to his people, for he is a Help always at hand. It is a comfort to the faithful servants of God when in difficulties, that as long as the Lord has any work for them to do, their lives shall be prolonged. If Paul had thrust himself needlessly into bad company, he might justly have been cast away with them; but God calling him into it, they are preserved with him. They are given thee; there is no greater satisfaction to a good man than to know he is a public blessing. He comforts them with the same comforts wherewith he himself was comforted. God is ever faithful, therefore let all who have an interest in his promises be ever cheerful. As, with God, saying and doing are not two things, believing and enjoying should not be so with us. Hope is an anchor of the soul, sure and stedfast, entering into that within the veil. Let those who are in spiritual darkness hold fast by that, and think not of putting to sea again, but abide by Christ, and wait till the day break, and the shadows flee away.

CONC:

Deep Farther Fathoms Fifteen Further Hove Hundred Later Lead Ninety Short Sounded Sounding Soundings Space Twenty

Deep Farther Feet Fifteen Found Further Hundred Little Ninety Sea Short Sounded Sounding Space Time Twenty Water

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