Acts 27:17-38

¹⁷Which being taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship, and fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, they let down the sail yard, and so were driven.

¹⁸And we being mightily tossed with the tempest, the next day they lightened the ship.

¹⁹And the third day they cast out with their own hands the tackling of the ship.

²⁰And when neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small storm lay on us, all hope of our being saved was now taken away.

²¹And after they had fasted a long time, Paul standing forth in the midst of them, said: You should indeed, O ye men, have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and have gained this harm and loss.

²²And now I exhort you to be of good cheer. For there shall be no loss of any man’s life among you, but only of the ship.

²³For an angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, stood by me this night,

²⁴Saying: Fear not, Paul, thou must be brought before Caesar; and behold, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.

²⁵Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer; for I believe God that it shall so be, as it hath been told me.

²⁶And we must come unto a certain island.

²⁷But after the fourteenth night was come, as we were sailing in Adria, about midnight, the shipmen deemed that they discovered some country.

²⁸Who also sounding, found twenty fathoms; and going on a little further, they found fifteen fathoms.

²⁹Then fearing lest we should fall upon rough places, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.

³⁰But as the shipmen sought to fly out of the ship, having let down the boat into the sea, under colour, as though they would have cast anchors out of the forepart of the ship,

³¹Paul said to the centurion, and to the soldiers: Except these stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.

³²Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.

³³And when it began to be light, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying: This day is the fourteenth day that you have waited, and continued fasting, taking nothing.

³⁴Wherefore I pray you to take some meat for your health’s sake; for there shall not an hair of the head of any of you perish.

³⁵And when he had said these things, taking bread, he gave thanks to God in the sight of them all; and when he had broken it, he began to eat.

³⁶Then were they all of better cheer, and they also took some meat.

³⁷And we were in all in the ship, two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.

³⁸And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, casting the wheat into the sea.