Acts 27:19-31

¹⁹and, on the following day, threw out the ship's tackle with their own hands.

²⁰As neither sun nor stars were visible for several days, and, as the gale still continued severe, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.

²¹It was then, when they had gone a long time without food, that Paul came forward, and said, “My friends, you should have listened to me, and not have sailed from Crete and so incurred this injury and damage.

²²Yet, even as things are, I beg you not to lose courage, for there will not be a single life lost amongst you — only the ship.

²³For last night an angel of the God to whom I belong, and whom I serve, stood by me, and said —

²⁴‘Have no fear, Paul; you must appear before the Emperor, and God himself has given you the lives of all your fellow voyagers.’

²⁵Therefore, courage, my friends! For I believe God, that everything will happen exactly as I have been told.

²⁶We will, however, have to be driven on some island.”

²⁷It was now the fourteenth night of the storm, and we were drifting about in the Adriatic Sea, when, about midnight, the sailors began to suspect that they were drawing near land.

²⁸So they took soundings, and found twenty fathoms of water. After waiting a little, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.

²⁹Then, as they were afraid of our being driven on some rocky coast, they let go four anchors from the stern, and longed for daylight.

³⁰The sailors wanted to leave the ship, and had lowered the boat, on pretence of running out anchors from the bows,

³¹when Paul said to the Roman officer and his men, “Unless the sailors remain on board, you cannot be saved.”