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A WALK THROUGH THE BOOK OF ACTS
PART XXVII - X
"I, Paul, looked at the people aboard the ship that was supposed to take us from Myra to Phoenix... They looked so thin...And that was not surprising... For we had not eaten anything for the last fourteen days... It was time to have something to eat....That would give us the strength we needed to deal with what was yet to come... So I urged them to have something to eat... I may have been just one of the prisoners.... But at that moment I was in charge of the ship... And everyone knew it.... They were all ready to eat something... I knew too that I should be the first one to eat something... For that would encourage all the others to do the same.... So I took a piece of bread... I then thanked God in front of everyone for having kept us alive.... I then ate.".... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that Paul encouraged everyone aboard the ship to eat something....
ATTACHMENT A WALK THROUGH THE BOOK OF ACTS
PART XXVII - X
Paul next encourages everyone on board the ship that is to take them from Myra to Phoenix to have something to eat to give them strength for what is yet to come as you can read in Acts 27:33-34
Just before dawn Paul urged them all to eat. "For the last fourteen days," he said, "you have been in constant suspense and have gone without food - you haven't eaten anything. Now I urge you to take some food. You need to survive. Not one of you will lose a single hair from his head."
It is very clear who is in charge of the ship: it is Paul.The Centurion may have been the one who originally was in charge of this company of prisoners. But the situation has drastically changed and everyone knows it. So when Paul directs them to eat they look to him if he will eat something himself, which he does as you can read in Acts 27:35
After he had said this, he took some bread and gave thanks to God in front of the all. Then he broke it and began to eat.
Paul knows he needs to give the example to eat for others to follow so they will then be able to do what is required of them.
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