Verse Lens · Context pointer
Acts 27:35 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 35. 35And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat.
King James Version — public domain in the United States · Bible text and permissions
Role in This Section
Records Paul taking bread, thanking God publicly, breaking, and eating.
Read It With
- Acts 27:27–27:38
Acts 27:35 records Paul taking bread, thanking God publicly, breaking, and eating; within Acts 27:27–27:38, the controlling movement is that Near land, sailors sound depth and try to escape, Paul warns that their presence is necessary, soldiers cut the boat away, Paul urges everyone to eat and gives thanks, and all take food before lightening the ship.
Why It Needs Context
Records Paul taking bread, thanking God publicly, breaking, and eating. Its responsible force depends on the full sequence, speaker, narrator framing, and outcome of Acts 27:27–27:38; it is connective evidence rather than a complete standalone teaching.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Acts 27:27–27:38 — Survival requires sailors, food, and shared actionSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and unit coverage.
Exact location: Acts 27:27–27:38, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control, without pretending one edition is a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text, Acts 27:27-27:38
Open the Acts Greek text file ↗