Acts 27:24-39

²⁴and said: ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. Furthermore, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’

²⁵So take courage, men, because I believe in God that it will be just as it was told me.

²⁶Also, we must run aground on a certain island.”

²⁷Now when the fourteenth night had come, as we were being driven here and there in the Adriatic, about midnight the sailors sensed that they were nearing some land.

²⁸They took a sounding and found twenty fathoms; going on a little they took a sounding again and found fifteen fathoms.

²⁹So fearing that we might be driven into a rocky area, they dropped four anchors from the stern and started praying for day to come.

³⁰Now under pretense of putting out anchors from the prow, the sailors lowered the skiff into the sea, intending to flee from the ship;

³¹so Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, “Unless these stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.”

³²Then the soldiers severed the ropes of the skiff and let it fall away.

³³While the day was coming on, Paul started urging them all to receive food, saying: “Today is the fourteenth day of waiting—you continue without eating, having taken nothing.

³⁴Therefore I urge you to take nourishment, because this is for our survival, since not a hair will fall from the head of any of you.”

³⁵Upon saying this he picked up some bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all; then he broke it and began to eat.

³⁶So they all were encouraged and took food themselves.

³⁷(In all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on the ship.)

³⁸So when they had eaten enough, they started lightening the ship by throwing out the wheat into the sea.

³⁹When it was day, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, onto which they planned to run the ship, if possible.