Acts 27:44

44. Some on boards Or planks found about the ship.

Broken pieces The italics show that the translators supply words not in the Greek. Some understand chests, barrels, tables, and other articles of furniture in the ship. But all those had probably long since been thrown overboard. More probably the translators correctly understand it of fragments of the wrecked ship.

All safe And so the three points of Paul’s prediction were accomplished; they were wrecked upon an island, the ship was lost, and the lives were saved. (Note Acts 27:22.) Unimpressible as this body of men appear, they doubtless had their solemn reflections at recollecting these scenes and the supernatural character of this apostle. And it was in this way that Christianity made its deep impression on the age, and gathered a Church of heroic sanctity from out the world.