34 Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.
34 Now I urge you to take some food. You need it to survive. Not one of you will lose a single hair from his head."
34 Therefore I urge you to take some food. For it will give you strength, for not a hair is to perish from the head of any of you."
34 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!"
34 Therefore I urge you to take nourishment, for this is for your survival, since not a hair will fall from the head of any of you."
34 "Please eat something now for your own good. For not a hair of your heads will perish."
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Acts 27:34
Commentary on Acts 27:30-38
(Read Acts 27:30-38)
God, who appointed the end, that they should be saved, appointed the means, that they should be saved by the help of these shipmen. Duty is ours, events are God's; we do not trust God, but tempt him, when we say we put ourselves under his protection, if we do not use proper means, such as are within our power, for our safety. But how selfish are men in general, often even ready to seek their own safety by the destruction of others! Happy those who have such a one as Paul in their company, who not only had intercourse with Heaven, but was of an enlivening spirit to those about him. The sorrow of the world works death, while joy in God is life and peace in the greatest distresses and dangers. The comfort of God's promises can only be ours by believing dependence on him, to fulfil his word to us; and the salvation he reveals must be waited for in use of the means he appoints. If God has chosen us to salvation, he has also appointed that we shall obtain it by repentance, faith, prayer, and persevering obedience; it is fatal presumption to expect it in any other way. It is an encouragement to people to commit themselves to Christ as their Saviour, when those who invite them, clearly show that they do so themselves.