New Testament in a Year
27 [a]And when the fourteenth night was come, as we were carried to and fro in the [b]Adriatic sea about midnight, the shipmen deemed that some country [c]approached unto them.
28 And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms.
29 Then fearing lest they should have fallen into some rough places, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished that the day were come.
30 [d]Now as the mariners were about to flee out of the ship, and had let down the boat into the sea under a color as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship.
31 [e]Paul said unto the Centurion and the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be safe.
32 Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let it fall away.
33 [f]And when it began to be day, Paul exhorted them all to take meat, saying, This is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried, and continued fasting, receiving nothing:
34 Wherefore I exhort you to take meat: for this is for your safeguard: for there shall not an [g]hair fall from the head of any of you.
35 And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all, and brake it, and began to eat.
36 Then were they all of good courage, and they also took meat.
37 Now we were in the ship in all two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.
38 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
39 [h]And when it was day, they knew not the country, but they spied a certain [i]creek with a bank, into the which they were minded (if it were possible) to thrust in the ship.
40 So when they had taken up the anchors, they committed the ship unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bonds, and hoisted up the main sail to the wind, and drew to the shore.
41 And when they fell into a place, where [j]two seas met, they thrust in the ship: and the forepart stuck fast, and could not be moved, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
42 [k]Then the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them, when he had swam out, should flee away.
43 [l]But the Centurion willing to save Paul, stayed them from this counsel, and commanded that they that could swim, should cast themselves first into the sea, and go out to land:
44 [m]And the others, some on boards, and some on certain pieces of the ship: and so it came to pass, that they came all safe to land.
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