Acts 27:24-39

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.

³³And in the meane tyme betwixt that and daye Paul besought them all to take meate sayinge: this is the fourtenthe daye that ye have taried and continued fastynge receavinge nothinge at all.

³⁴Wherfore I praye you to take meate: for this no dout is for youre helth: for ther shall not an heere fall from the heed of eny of you.

³⁵And when he had thus spoke he toke breed and gave thankes to God in presence of the all and brake it and begane to eate.

³⁶Then were they all of good cheare and they also toke meate.

³⁷We were all together in the ship two hundred thre score and sixtene soules.

³⁸And when they had eate ynough they lightened the ship and cast out the wheate into the see.

³⁹When that was daye they knew not the lande but they spied a certayne haven with a banke into the which they were mynded (yf that were possible) to thrust in the ship.