This speaks their great ingratitude, that they would take away Paul's life, who had preserved theirs. But Christ's apostles and ministers must not look for their reward in this life; though men cannot, or do not, recompense them, they shall be recompensed at the resurrection of the just, Luke 14:14.
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Acts 27:42
42 And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.