Acts Chapter 27 verse 35 Holy Bible
And when he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all; and he brake it, and began to eat.
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And when he had said this and had taken bread, he gave praise to God before them all, and took a meal of the broken bread.
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And, having said these things and taken a loaf, he gave thanks to God before all, and having broken it began to eat.
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And 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.
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When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and he broke it, and began to eat.
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and having said these things, and having taken bread, he gave thanks to God before all, and having broken `it', he began to eat;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 35. - Said this for thus spoken, A.V.; and had taken for he took, A.V.; he gave for and gave, A.V.; the presence of all for presence of them all, A.V.; be brake for when he had broken, A.V.; and began for he began, A.V. Had taken bread, etc. The concurrence of the words λαβὼν ἄρτον ηὐχαρίστησε, κλάσας, which all occur in the institution of the Holy Eucharist (Luke 22:19), is certainly, as Bishop Wordsworth says, remarkable. But there is the same similarity of phrase (except that εὐλόγησε is used for ηὐχαρίστησε in the first passage) in Matthew 14:19 and Matthew 15:36, and therefore the conclusion to be drawn is that St. Paul's action and words were the same as those of our Lord, as far as the breaking bread and giving thanks and eating, went, which were common to both occasions; but in the institution of the sacrament the words "This is my body" were additional, and represented an additional and sacramental truth. Observe, again, the devout confession of the living God in the presence of unbelieving men (vers. 23, 24).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(35) He took bread, and gave thanks to God.--The act was a common practice of devout Jews at the beginning and the end of meals. (See Note on Matthew 14:9.) To the heathen soldiers and sailors it was probably altogether new, and at such a moment must have been singularly impressive. The act of "breaking bread," though in itself not more than the natural incident of such a meal, must at least have reminded the few Christians who were his companions of the more solemn "breaking of bread" with which they were familiar. (See Note on Acts 2:46.) For them the meal, if not strictly eucharistic, in the liturgical sense of that term, would be at least as an Agape, or feast of charity.
