Acts 27:20-32

²⁰When at the last nether sunne nor starre in many dayes appered and no small tempest laye apon vs all hope that we shuld be saved was then taken awaye.

²¹Then after longe abstinence Paul stode forth in the myddes of them and sayde: Syrs ye shulde have harkened to me and not have lowsed from Candy nether to have brought vnto vs this harme and losse.

²²And nowe I exhorte you to be of good chere. For ther shalbe no losse of eny mans lyfe amonge you save of the ship only.

²³For ther stode by me this nyght the angell of God whose I am and whom I serve

²⁴sayinge: feare not Paul for thou must be brought before Cesar. And lo God hath geven vnto the all that sayle with the.

²⁵Wherfore Syrs be of good chere: for I beleve God that so it shalbe even as it was tolde me.

²⁶How be it we must be cast into a certayne ylonde.

²⁷But when the fourtethe nyght was come as we were caryed in Adria about mydnyght the shipmen demed that ther appered some countre vnto them:

²⁸and sounded and founde it .xx. feddoms. And when they had gone a lytell further they sounded agayne and founde .xv. feddoms.

²⁹Then fearinge lest they shuld have fallen on some Rocke they cast .iiii. ancres out of the sterne and wysshed for the daye.

³⁰As the shipmen were about to fle out of the ship and had let doune the bote into the see vnder a coloure as though they wolde have cast ancres out of the forshippe:

³¹Paul sayd vnto the vnder captayne and the soudiers: excepte these abyde in the ship ye cannot be safe.

³²Then the soudiers cut of the rope of the bote and let it fall awaye.