25. So take heart, men! For I trust in God that it will be just as I was told.
26. But we will be driven ashore on some island.”
27. It was the fourteenth night, and we were being driven about in the Mediterranean by the storm. About midnight the sailors suspected that we were getting close to land.
28. So they dropped a line with a weight tied to it and found that the water was forty metres deep; a little later they did the same and found that it was thirty metres deep.
29. They were afraid that the ship would go on the rocks, so they lowered four anchors from the back of the ship and prayed for daylight.