Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 27:38

38 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.

The provision they had for their sustenance. This is the third time that they lightened the ship, being willing that all their Goods should perish for them, rather than with them Or these Heathens were so far perswaded by St. Paul, that they ventured their lives upon the credit of what he had foretold them; and parted with their food, and all they had to live upon, only upon his word, that they should want them in the ship no more.