KJV ORIGINAL
And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
All together, there were 276 people on that ship.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
Sometimes God cares about the exact number, every single person matters to him.
📚 Historical Context
In the book of Acts, written by Luke as a historical account of the early church, this verse occurs during Paul's perilous sea voyage to Rome as a prisoner, where the ship faces a massive storm in the Mediterranean. Paul had been arrested and was en route for trial before Caesar, and this detail about the 276 people on board underscores the scale of the danger and God's overarching providence in the narrative. It reflects the common risks of ancient maritime travel, which was often fraught with storms and shipwrecks.
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