Acts 27:30-44 ▼

30 And the sailors seeking to escape from the ship, and lowering the boat into the sea, with a pretext as about to cast anchors from the prow,

31 Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, Unless these may remain in the ship, you are not able to be saved.

32 Then the soldiers cut the ropes away from the boat, and let it fall out.

33 But until the day was about to come, Paul exhorted all to take food, saying, Already this day you remain in a state of solicitude, the fourteenth day, receiving nothing.

34 Therefore I exhort you to take food: for this is for your safety: for not a hair of your head shall perish.

35 And having spoken these words, and taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and breaking it, began to eat.

36 And all becoming cheerful, themselves also took food.

37 And we were two hundred and seventy-six souls in the ship.

38 And having been revived by the food, they lightened the ship, casting the wheat over into the sea.

39 And when it was day, they did not recognize the land: but discovered a certain gulf having a shore, into which they determined, if possible, to thrust out the ship.

40 And having knocked off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time loosing the bands of the rudders, and raising up the main sail to the blowing wind, they made for the shore.

41 And having fallen into a place where two seas met, they broke the ship, and indeed the prow, sticking fast, remained motionless, but the stern was torn off by the violence (of the wind).

42 And the counsel of the soldiers was that they should kill the prisoners, lest some one, having outswum them, might escape:

43 but the centurion, wishing to save Paul, forbade them from their counsel; and commanded that those who were able to swim, having first thrown themselves overboard, to go to the land;

44 and the rest, some on planks, and others on some parts from the ship. And thus it came to pass that all came safe to the land.