23. For this [very] night there stood by my side an angel of the God to Whom I belong and Whom I serve and worship,
24. And he said, Do not be frightened, Paul! It is necessary for you to stand before Caesar; and behold, God has given you all those who are sailing with you.
25. So keep up your courage, men, for I have faith (complete confidence) in God that it will be exactly as it was told me;
26. But we shall have to be stranded on some island.
27. The fourteenth night had come and we were drifting and being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, when about midnight the sailors began to suspect that they were drawing near to some land.
28. So they took soundings and found twenty fathoms, and a little farther on they sounded again and found fifteen fathoms.
29. Then fearing that we might fall off [our course] onto rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and kept wishing for daybreak to come.
30. And as the sailors were trying to escape [secretly] from the ship and were lowering the small boat into the sea, pretending that they were going to lay out anchors from the bow,
31. Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, Unless these men remain in the ship, you cannot be saved.
32. Then the soldiers cut away the ropes that held the small boat, and let it fall and drift away.