Act 27:35 | JFB | e4.org | 35. when he had thus spoken he took bread —assuming the lead. and gave thanks to God in presence of them all —an impressive act in such circumstances, and fitted to plant a testimony for the God he served in the breasts of all. when he had broken it, he began to eat —not understood by the Christians in the ship as a love-feast, or celebration of the Lord's Supper, as some think, but a meal to recruit exhausted nature, which Paul shows them by his own example how a Christian partakes of.

‏ Acts 27:35

35. when he had thus spoken he took bread—assuming the lead.

and gave thanks to God in presence of them all—an impressive act in such circumstances, and fitted to plant a testimony for the God he served in the breasts of all.

when he had broken it, he began to eat—not understood by the Christians in the ship as a love-feast, or celebration of the Lord's Supper, as some think, but a meal to recruit exhausted nature, which Paul shows them by his own example how a Christian partakes of.