Acts 27:19-31

¹⁹On the third day they grabbed the ship's gear and tossed it into the sea.

²⁰We hadn't seen the sun or the stars for many days as the storm beat down on us; so any hope of our being saved was lost.

²¹Nobody had eaten anything for a long time. Then Paul stood before them and told them, “Men, you should have listened to me and not sailed from Crete. Then you could have avoided all this hardship and loss.

²²But now I advise you keep up your courage, because nobody is going to be lost, just the ship.

²³Last night an angel of my God and whom I serve, stood beside me.

²⁴‘Don't be afraid, Paul,’ he told me. ‘You have to stand trial before Caesar. See, God has graciously given to you everyone who is sailing with you.’

²⁵So men, have courage! I trust God, and I'm convinced things will happen just as I was told.

²⁶However, we will be wrecked on some island.”

²⁷At around midnight on the fourteenth night of the storm, still being blown over the Sea of Adria, the crew suspected they were getting close to land.

²⁸They checked the depth and found it was forty meters, and a little while later they checked again and it was thirty meters.

²⁹They were concerned that we might be wrecked on rocks, so they dropped four anchors from the stern, and prayed for daylight to come.

³⁰The crew tried to leave the ship, and had lowered the ship's boat into the water with the pretext that they were going to drop anchors from the ship's bow.

³¹But Paul told the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless the crew stays with the ship, you will be lost.”