“And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.”
King James Version (KJV)
27:38 Casting out the wheat - So firmly did they now depend on what St. Paul had said.
Ac 27:38 They lightened the ship. It was needful to beach it in just as shallow water as possible. And cast out the wheat into the sea. Hence the cargo was thrown overboard. As might be expected in an Alexandrian ship, the cargo was wheat. Egypt was then the granary of Rome.