Acts 27:18-31

¹⁸But the storm being extremely violent on us, on the next day they threw cargo overboard,

¹⁹and on the third day with their own hands they cast away the ship furniture.

²⁰And neither sun nor stars appearing for many days, and no small storm lying on us, in the end all hope of our being saved was taken away.

²¹And when they had been a long while without taking food, Paul then standing up in the midst of them said, Ye ought, O men, to have hearkened to me, and not have made sail from Crete and have gained this disaster and loss.

²²And now I exhort you to be of good courage, for there shall be no loss at all of life of any of you, only of the ship.

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

²⁴saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must stand before Caesar; and behold, God has granted to thee all those that sail with thee.

²⁵Wherefore be of good courage, men, for I believe God that thus it shall be, as it has been said to me.

²⁶But we must be cast ashore on a certain island.

²⁷And when the fourteenth night was come, we being driven about in Adria, towards the middle of the night the sailors supposed that some land neared them,

²⁸and having sounded found twenty fathoms, and having gone a little farther and having again sounded they found fifteen fathoms;

²⁹and fearing lest we should be cast on rocky places, casting four anchors out of the stern, they wished that day were come.

³⁰But the sailors wishing to flee out of the ship, and having let down the boat into the sea under pretext of being about to carry out anchors from the prow,

³¹Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, Unless these abide in the ship ye cannot be saved.