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A WALK THROUGH THE BOOK OF ACTS
PART XVII - XI
"I, Paul, had eaten something.... That was the sign for everyone else aboard the ship that was supposed to take us from Myra to Phoenix to eat something as well.... All 276 of us felt a little better after we had eaten something.... And no wonder..... For we had not had anything to eat for the last fourteen days... We ended up eating as much as we wanted... The food tasted wonderful... It was then time to get some work done... We realised that the ship needed to be made lighter still... The only way to do that was to throw more cargo overboard... So we threw the grain into the sea... It was not what we wanted to do.... But we had no choice.".... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that more cargo is thrown overboard after the people have finally eaten some food....
ATTACHMENT A WALK THROUGH THE BOOK OF ACTS
PART XXVII - XI
Seeing Paul eat, gave the others on board the ship that is to take them from Myra to Phoenix the courage to eat as well as you can read in Acts 27:36
They were all encouraged and ate some food themselves.
After everyone on board has eaten some food they are ready for some further activities as you can read in Acts 27:37-38
Altogether there were 276 of us on board. When they had eaten as much as they wanted, they lightened the ship by throwing grain into the sea.
Even though they have already thrown cargo overboard, they obviously have kept part of the cargo. But it is time for that cargo to go overboard as well. And Paul has already said that the ship will be lost. So there is no point in hanging on to that cargo, no matter how valuable it may be.
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