Acts 27:42
Acts chapter 27 · verse 42 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
Context
v.41But lighting upon a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground; and the foreship struck and remained unmoveable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves.
v.42This passage
v.43But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stayed them from their purpose; and commanded that they who could swim should cast themselves overboard, and get first to the land;
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 74:20
Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.
- Luke 23:40
But the other answered, and rebuking him said, Dost thou not even fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?
- Ecclesiastes 9:3
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
- Mark 15:15
And Pilate, wishing to content the multitude, released unto them Barabbas, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.
- Acts 12:19
And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judæa to Cæsarea, and tarried there.
- Proverbs 12:10
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.