21. Since many were going without food, Paul stood up among them and said, “You men should have followed my advice not to sail from Crete and sustain this damage and loss.
22. Now I urge you to take courage, because there will be no loss of any of your lives, but only of the ship.
23. For this night an angel of the God I belong to and serve stood by me,
24. and said, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. And, look! God has graciously given you all those who are sailing with you.’
25. Therefore, take courage, men, because I believe God that it will be just the way it was told to me.
26. However, we must run aground on a certain island.”
27. When the fourteenth night came, we were drifting in the Adriatic Sea, and in the middle of the night the sailors thought they were approaching land.
28. They took a sounding and found it to be 120 feet deep; when they had sailed a little farther and sounded again, they found it to be 90 feet deep.