Acts 27:18-31

¹⁸And we, being exceedingly tempest-tossed, the succeeding day they were making a clearing,

¹⁹and on the third day with our own hands the tackling of the ship we cast out,

²⁰and neither sun nor stars appearing for more days, and not a little tempest lying upon us, thenceforth all hope was taken away of our being saved.

²¹And there having been long fasting, then Paul having stood in the midst of them, said, 'It behoved you, indeed, O men — having hearkened to me — not to set sail from Crete, and to save this hurt and damage;

²²and now I exhort you to be of good cheer, for there shall be no loss of life among you — but of the ship;

²³for there stood by me this night a messenger of God — whose I am, and whom I serve —

²⁴saying, Be not afraid Paul; before Caesar it behoveth thee to stand; and, lo, God hath granted to thee all those sailing with thee;

²⁵wherefore be of good cheer, men! for I believe God, that so it shall be, even as it hath been spoken to me,

²⁶and on a certain island it behoveth us to be cast.'

²⁷And when the fourteenth night came — we being borne up and down in the Adria — toward the middle of the night the sailors were supposing that some country drew nigh to them;

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

²⁹and fearing lest on rough places we may fall, out of the stern having cast four anchors, they were wishing day to come.

³⁰And the sailors seeking to flee out of the ship, and having let down the boat to the sea, in pretence as if out of the foreship they are about to cast anchors,

³¹Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, 'If these do not remain in the ship — ye are not able to be saved;'