We took such a violent battering from the storm that the next day the men began to throw the cargo overboard. - 'Violent battering' (sphodra cheimazo, sphodra cheimazo-'violently storm-tossed') forces a desperate measure: 'throw the cargo overboard' (ekballo phortion, ekballo phortion-'cast out the freight'). The cargo-Egyptian grain worth a fortune-is jettisoned to lighten the ship and slow its sinking. Luke shows the progression of crisis: first caution, then urgency, now desperation.

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