Acts 27:36

Amplified Bible

Then all of them were encouraged and their spirits improved, and they also ate some food.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
All the men felt better and started eating too.

Revised Standard Version
Then they all were encouraged and ate some food themselves.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Then were they all of good cheare and they also toke meate.

Hebrew Names Version
Then they all cheered up, and they also took food.

International Standard Version
All of them were encouraged and had something to eat.

New American Standard Bible
All of them were encouraged and they themselves also took food.

New Century Version
They all felt better and started eating, too.

Update Bible Version
Then they were all of good cheer, and themselves also took food.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then they were all of good cheer, and they also took food.

English Standard Version
Then they all were encouraged and ate some food themselves.

World English Bible
Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took food.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Then were they all incouraged, and they also took meat.

Weymouth's New Testament
This raised the spirits of all, and they too took food.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And alle weren maad of betere coumfort, and thei token mete.

English Revised Version
Then were they all of good cheer, and themselves also took food.

Berean Standard Bible
They were all encouraged and took some food themselves.

Contemporary English Version
They all felt encouraged, and each of them ate something.

American Standard Version
Then were they all of good cheer, and themselves also took food.

Bible in Basic English
Then they all took heart and did the same.

Complete Jewish Bible
With courage restored, they all ate some food themselves.

Darby Translation
And all taking courage, themselves also took food.

Etheridge Translation
And they were all comforted, and received food.

Murdock Translation
And they were all consoled; and they took nourishment.

King James Version (1611)
Then were they all of good cheere, and they also tooke some meat.

New Living Translation
Then everyone was encouraged and began to eat—

New Life Bible
They all were comforted. Each one ate some food.

New Revised Standard
Then all of them were encouraged and took food for themselves.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then were they all of good courage, and they also tooke meate.

George Lamsa Translation
Then they were all cheerful, and received nourishment.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, all becoming, of good cheer, they also, helped themselves to food.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then were they all of better cheer: and they also took some meat.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then were they all of good cheare, and they also toke meate.

Good News Translation
They took courage, and every one of them also ate some food.

Christian Standard Bible®
They all were encouraged and took food themselves.

King James Version
Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat.

Lexham English Bible
So they all were encouraged and partook of food themselves.

Literal Translation
And all having become cheered, they also took food.

Young's Literal Translation
and all having become of good cheer, themselves also took food,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then were they all of good cheare, and toke meate also.

Mace New Testament (1729)
at which they all took heart and fell a eating likewise,

New English Translation
So all of them were encouraged and took food themselves.

New King James Version
Then they were all encouraged, and also took food themselves.

Simplified Cowboy Version
This got everyone else to eating, and the mood brightened a little.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
All of them were encouraged and they themselves also took food.

Legacy Standard Bible
And all of them became cheerful and they themselves also took food.

Contextual Overview

²¹After they had gone a long time without food [because of seasickness and stress], Paul stood up before them and said, "Men, you should have followed my advice and should not have set sail from Crete, and brought on this damage and loss. ²²"But even now I urge you to keep up your courage and be in good spirits, because there will be no loss of life among you, but only loss of the ship. ²³"For this very night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood before me, ²⁴and said, 'Stop being afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar; and behold, God has given you [the lives of] all those who are sailing with you.' ²⁵"So keep up your courage, men, for I believe God and have complete confidence in Him that it will turn out exactly as I have been told; ²⁶but we must run [the ship] aground on some island." ²⁷The fourteenth night had come and we were drifting and being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, when about midnight the sailors began to suspect that they were approaching some land. ²⁸So they took soundings [using a weighted line] and found [the depth to be] twenty fathoms (120 feet); and a little farther on they sounded again and found [the depth to be] fifteen fathoms (90 feet). ²⁹Then fearing that we might run aground somewhere on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern [to slow the ship] and kept wishing for daybreak to come. ³⁰But as the sailors were trying to escape [secretly] from the ship and had let down the skiff into the sea, pretending that they were going to lay out anchors from the bow,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they all: Psalms 27:14, 2 Corinthians 1:4-6

Reciprocal: Acts 27:22 - I exhort

Cross-References

Genesis 27:31
Esau also made a delicious dish [of meat] and brought it to his father and said to him, "Let my father get up and eat some of his son's game, so that you may bless me."

Genesis 27:34
When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with a great and extremely bitter cry and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, O my father!"

Genesis 32:28
And He said, "Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed."

John 1:47
Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said of him, "Here is an Israelite indeed [a true descendant of Jacob], in whom there is no guile nor deceit nor duplicity!"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then were they all of good cheer,.... Encouraged by the apostle's words and example:

and they all took some meat; and made a comfortable meal, which they had not done for fourteen days past.