Acts 27:18-31

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.