Acts 27:33-44 ▼

33 And until the day was about to be, Paul was calling on all to partake of nourishment, saying, “Fourteen days today, waiting, you continue fasting, having taken nothing,

34 for this reason I call on you to take nourishment, for this is for your safety, for of not one of you will a hair fall from the head”;

35 and having said these things, and having taken bread, he gave thanks to God before all, and having broken [it], he began to eat;

36 and all having become of good cheer, also took food themselves,

37 (and we were—all the souls in the ship—two hundred, seventy-six),

38 and having eaten sufficient nourishment, they were lightening the ship, casting forth the wheat into the sea.

39 And when the day came, they were not discerning the land, but were perceiving a certain bay having a beach, into which they took counsel, if possible, to thrust forward the ship,

40 and having taken up the anchors, they were committing [it] to the sea, at the same time—having loosed the bands of the rudders, and having hoisted up the foresail to the wind—they were making for the shore,

41 and having fallen into a place of two seas, they ran the ship aground, and the prow, indeed, having stuck fast, remained immoveable, but the stern was broken by the violence of the waves.

42 And the soldiers’ counsel was that they should kill the prisoners, lest anyone having swam out should escape,

43 but the centurion, resolving to save Paul, hindered them from the counsel, and commanded those able to swim, having cast themselves out first—to get to the land,

44 and the rest, some indeed on boards, and some on certain things of the ship; and thus it came to pass that all came safe to the land.