Acts 27:33-44 ▼

33 And while the day was coming on, Paul exhorted them all to take food, saying: This is the fourteenth day that you have been in suspense, and continued without food, having taken nothing.

34 Wherefore, I exhort you to take food; for this will promote your safety. For not a hair shall fall from the head of any of you.

35 And when he had said this, he took bread, and gave thanks to God before them all, and broke, and began to eat.

36 And all became cheerful, and also partook of food.

37 And all of us that were in the ship were two hundred and seventy-six souls.

38 When they were satisfied with food, they lightened the ship by throwing the provisions into the sea.

39 And when it was day, they did not recognize the land; but they perceived an inlet, that had an accessible shore, into which they desired, if they could, to thrust the ship.

40 And, after cutting away the anchors, they committed the ship to the sea, at the same time loosing the lashings of the rudders: and they set up the front sail to the wind, and kept the ship firmly toward the shore.

41 And falling into a place where two currents met, they ran the ship aground, and the prow stuck fast, and remained immovable; but the stern was broken by the violence of the waves.

42 The soldiers counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest some of them should swim out and escape.

43 But the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose, and commanded those who were able to swim, to throw themselves into the sea first, and get to land;

44 and then the rest, some on planks, and others on what could be taken from the ship. And thus it came to pass, that all got safe to land.