Acts 27:37

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
In all there were 276 of us on the ship.

King James Version (1611)
And we were in all, in the ship, two hundred, threescore and sixteene soules.

King James Version
And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.

English Standard Version
(We were in all 276 persons in the ship.)

New American Standard Bible
We were 276 people on the ship in all.

New Century Version
There were two hundred seventy-six people on the ship.

Amplified Bible
All told there were two hundred and seventy-six of us aboard the ship.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
All of us in the ship were two hundred and seventy-six persons.

Legacy Standard Bible
And all of us in the ship were 276 persons.

Berean Standard Bible
Altogether there were 276 of us on board.

Contemporary English Version
There were 276 people on the ship,

Complete Jewish Bible
Altogether there were 276 of us on board the ship.

Darby Translation
And we were in the ship, all the souls, two hundred and seventy-six.

Easy-to-Read Version
(There were 276 people on the ship.)

Geneva Bible (1587)
Nowe we were in the ship in all two hundreth three score and sixteene soules.

George Lamsa Translation
We were in all, on board, two hundred and seventy-six persons.

Good News Translation
There was a total of 276 of us on board.

Lexham English Bible
(Now we were in all two hundred seventy six persons on the ship.)

Literal Translation
And we were, all the souls in the ship, two hundred seventy six.

American Standard Version
And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.

Bible in Basic English
And we were, in the ship, two hundred and seventy-six persons.

Hebrew Names Version
We were in all in the ship two hundred seventy-six souls.

International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
But we were in the ship two hundred and seventy and six souls.

Murdock Translation
And there were of us in the ship two hundred and seventy-six souls.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And we were altogether in the shippe, two hudred threescore & sixteene soules.

English Revised Version
And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.

World English Bible
We were in all in the ship two hundred seventy-six souls.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And we were in the ship in all, two hundred and seventy-six souls.

Weymouth's New Testament
There were 276 of us, crew and passengers, all told.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And we weren alle men in the schip, two hundrid seuenti and sexe.

Update Bible Version
And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.

Webster's Bible Translation
And we were in all in the ship two hundred and seventy six souls.

New English Translation
(We were in all two hundred seventy-six persons on the ship.)

New King James Version
And in all we were two hundred and seventy-six persons on the ship.

New Living Translation
all 276 of us who were on board.

New Life Bible
All together there were 276 of us on the ship.

New Revised Standard
(We were in all two hundred seventy-six persons in the ship.)

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now we were, in the ship, in all, about seventy-six souls.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.

Revised Standard Version
(We were in all two hundred and seventy-six persons in the ship.)

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
We were all together in ye ship two hundred thre score and sixtene soules.

Young's Literal Translation
(and we were -- all the souls in the ship -- two hundred, seventy and six),

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
We were all together in the shippe two hundreth thre score and sixtene soules.

Mace New Testament (1729)
the whole number then on board being two hundred and seventy six.

Simplified Cowboy Version
There were 276 people who ate that early morning.

Contextual Overview

²¹With our appetite for both food and life long gone, Paul took his place in our midst and said, "Friends, you really should have listened to me back in Crete. We could have avoided all this trouble and trial. But there's no need to dwell on that now. From now on, things are looking up! I can assure you that there'll not be a single drowning among us, although I can't say as much for the ship—the ship itself is doomed. ²³"Last night God's angel stood at my side, an angel of this God I serve, saying to me, ‘Don't give up, Paul. You're going to stand before Caesar yet—and everyone sailing with you is also going to make it.' So, dear friends, take heart. I believe God will do exactly what he told me. But we're going to shipwreck on some island or other." ²⁷On the fourteenth night, adrift somewhere on the Adriatic Sea, at about midnight the sailors sensed that we were approaching land. Sounding, they measured a depth of 120 feet, and shortly after that ninety feet. Afraid that we were about to run aground, they threw out four anchors and prayed for daylight. ³⁰Some of the sailors tried to jump ship. They let down the lifeboat, pretending they were going to set out more anchors from the bow. Paul saw through their guise and told the centurion and his soldiers, "If these sailors don't stay with the ship, we're all going down." So the soldiers cut the lines to the lifeboat and let it drift off. ³³With dawn about to break, Paul called everyone together and proposed breakfast: "This is the fourteenth day we've gone without food. None of us has felt like eating! But I urge you to eat something now. You'll need strength for the rescue ahead. You're going to come out of this without even a scratch!" ³⁵He broke the bread, gave thanks to God, passed it around, and they all ate heartily—276 of us, all told! With the meal finished and everyone full, the ship was further lightened by dumping the grain overboard. ³⁹At daybreak, no one recognized the land—but then they did notice a bay with a nice beach. They decided to try to run the ship up on the beach. They cut the anchors, loosed the tiller, raised the sail, and ran before the wind toward the beach. But we didn't make it. Still far from shore, we hit a reef and the ship began to break up. ⁴²The soldiers decided to kill the prisoners so none could escape by swimming, but the centurion, determined to save Paul, stopped them. He gave orders for anyone who could swim to dive in and go for it, and for the rest to grab a plank. Everyone made it to shore safely.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

two: Acts 27:24

souls: Acts 2:41, Acts 7:14, Romans 13:1, 1 Peter 3:20

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And we were in all in the ship,.... Reckoning the master and owner of the ship, and the centurion and the soldiers, and the apostle and his company, with whatsoever passengers there might be:

two hundred and threescore and sixteen souls; the Alexandrian copy reads, "two hundred seventy and five"; and the Ethiopic version, "two hundred and six". This account of the number is given to show, that the historian, who was one of them, had an exact knowledge of all in the ship; and this being recorded before the account of the shipwreck, may serve to make the truth of the relation the more to be believed that none of them perished, since their number was so precisely known; and makes it the more marvellous, that such a number of men should be saved, and in a shipwreck; and shows, that there must be a wonderful interposition of divine power to bring them all safe to land.