Acts 27:33-44 ▼

33 And, when the day was about to dawn, Paul was beseeching them all to take food, saying, "To-day is the fourteenth day ye, waiting, continue fasting, having taken nothing;

34 wherefore, I beseech you to partake of food; for this makes the beginning of your deliverance; for a hair from the head of no one of you shall perish."

35 And, having said these things, and taken bread, he gave thanks to God in presence of them all; and, breaking it , he began to eat.

36 And, all having become of good cheer, they themselves also partook of food.

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

38 And, having been satisfied with food, they were lightening the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

39 And, when it was day, they were not recognizing the land; but they were observing a certain bay, having a beach, into which they purposed, if they might be able, to thrust the ship.

40 And, casting off the anchors, they let them go into the sea; at the same time loosing the bands of the rudders, and hoisting the fore-sail to the breeze, they were holding their course towards the beach.

41 But, falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the prow, sticking fast, remained immovable, but the stern was being broken to pieces by the violence of the waves .

42 Now it was the plan of the soldiers to kill the prisoners, lest any one, swimming out, might escape.

43 But the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and he commanded that those able to swim, throwing themselves first into the sea, should get out upon the land;

44 and the rest—some, indeed, on planks, and others on some of the things from the Ship. And so it came to pass that all escaped safe to land.