Charles Ellicott Commentary Acts 27:36

"Then were they all of good cheer, and themselves also took food." — Acts 27:36 (ASV)

Then were they all of good cheer.—The words present a striking contrast to the despair of Acts 27:20. The hearty cheerfulness (is it too colloquial a phrase to say the “pluck”?) of the Apostle had communicated itself, as by a kind of electric sympathy, to his companions. They looked to him as their friend and leader, and had spirits to eat once more.