Acts 27:18

The next day, because we were violently battered by the storm, ¹  they began throwing the cargo overboard, ² 

Ps 107:27; Jon 1:5; Mt 16:26; Lu 16:8; Ac 27:19,38; Php 3:7,8; Heb 12:1

¹ tn BDAG 980 s.v. σφόδρῶς states, “very much, greatly, violently…σφ. χειμάζεσθαι be violently beaten by a storm Ac 27:18.”

² tn Or “jettisoning [the cargo]” (a nautical technical term). The words “the cargo” are not in the Greek text but are implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context, but must be supplied for the modern English reader.

sn The desperation of the sailors in throwing the cargo overboard is reminiscent of Jonah 1:5. At this point they were only concerned with saving themselves.