24. saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar; and, behold, God has given thee all those that sail with thee.
25. Therefore, sirs, be of good cheer; for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.
26. However we must be cast upon a certain island.
27. And when the fourteenth night was come as we were driven up and down in the Adriatic sea, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country
28. and sounded and found it twenty fathoms; and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again and found it fifteen fathoms.
29. Then fearing lest we should fall upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern and wished for the day.
30. And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
31. Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.
32. Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat and let her fall off.
33. And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take food, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have waited and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
34. Therefore I pray you to take some food, for this is for your salvation and health, for there shall not one 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 when he had broken it, he began to eat.
36. Then they were all of good cheer, and they also took some food.
37. And we were in all, in the ship, two hundred and seventy-six souls.
38. And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship and cast out the grain into the sea.
39. And when it was day, they did not recognize the land, but they discovered a certain gulf with a shore, into which they decided, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
40. And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea and loosed the rudder bands and hoisted up the mainsail to the wind and made toward shore.
41. But falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast and remained unmovable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.