Acts 27:27-32

New American Standard Bible

²⁷ But when the fourteenth night came, as we were being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors began to suspect that ^[a]they were approaching some land. ²⁸ And they took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and a little farther on they took another sounding and found it to be fifteen fathoms. ²⁹ Fearing that we might ^(A)run aground somewhere on the ^[b]rocks, they cast four anchors from the stern and ^[c]prayed for daybreak. ³⁰ But as the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had let down ^(B)the ship’s boat into the sea, on the pretense that they were going to lay out anchors from the bow, ³¹ Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men remain on the ship, you yourselves cannot be saved.” ³² Then the soldiers cut away the ^(C)ropes of the ship’s boat and let it fall away.