Charles Spurgeon Commentary Acts 27:33-34

"And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take some food, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing. Wherefore I beseech you to take some food: for this is for your safety: for there shall not a hair perish from the head of any of you." — Acts 27:33-34 (ASV)

What a grand speech this is! It is the utterance of faith. Talk of eloquence! This is real eloquence, – for Paul to be addressing the people in a storm-tossed ship as calmly as if he were safely on shore.