25. So take heart, men, for I trust God that it will be exactly as I have been told.
26. But we must run aground on some island.”
27. Now when the fourteenth night had come, as we were drifting across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors began to sense that they were nearing some land.
28. So they took soundings and found the water was twenty fathoms deep. A bit farther along, they took another sounding and found it was fifteen fathoms deep.
29. Fearing that we might run aground on the rocks, they threw out four anchors from the stern. They were longing for day to come.
30. Now the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had lowered the dinghy into the sea, pretending they were going to put out anchors from the bow.
31. Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men remain on the ship, you cannot be saved!”
32. Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the dinghy and let it drift away.
33. As day was about to dawn, Paul urged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have kept waiting and going without food, having taken nothing.