30. But as the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had let down the ship's boat into the sea, on the pretense of intending to lay out anchors from the bow,
31. Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless these men remain in the ship, you yourselves cannot be saved."
32. Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship's boat and let it fall away.
33. Until the day was about to dawn, Paul was encouraging them all to take some food, saying, "Today is the fourteenth day that you have been constantly watching and going without eating, having taken nothing.
34. Therefore I encourage you to take some food, for this is for your preservation, for not a hair from the head of any of you will perish."