Acts 27:33-44 ▼

33 And till it was about to be day, Paul besought all to take food, saying, Awaiting this day the fourteenth day, ye continue fasting, having taken nothing.

34 Wherefore I beseech you to take food: for this is for your salvation: for not a hair of the head of one of you shall fall.

35 And having said these, and having taken bread, he returned thanks to God before all: and having broken, he began to eat.

36 And all being cheerful, these also received food.

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

38 And satisfied with food, they lightened the ship, casting out the wheat into the sea.

39 And when it was day, they knew not the land: and they observed a certain deep bay having a coast, into which they resolved, if able, to push the ship.

40 And having in removed the anchors, they let go into the sea, at the same time having let loose the bonds of the rudders, and having lifted up the mizen mast, they held with the blast to the coast.

41 And having fallen into a place between two seas, they caused the ship to strike; and truly the prow, fixed firmly, remained undisturbed, but the stern was loosed by force of the waves.

42 And the soldiers' counsel was that they kill the prisoners, lest any, having swum away, may escape.

43 But the centurion wishing to save Paul, hindered from the resolution; and he commanded those being able to swim, having cast off first, to come to land:

44 And the rest, truly some on boards, and some on certain things from the ship. And so it was, all were saved upon the land.