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.
33. While they waited until it should become day, Paul entreated them all to take some food, saying, This is the fourteenth day that you have been continually in suspense and on the alert without food, having eaten nothing.
34. So I urge (warn, exhort, encourage, advise) you to take some food [for your safety]–it will give you strength; for not a hair is to perish from the head of any one of you.
35. Having said these words, he took bread and, giving thanks to God before them all, he broke it and began to eat.
36. Then they all became more cheerful and were encouraged and took food themselves.
37. All told there were 276 souls of us in the ship.
38. And after they had eaten sufficiently, [they proceeded] to lighten the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.
39. Now when it was day [and they saw the land], they did not recognize it, but they noticed a bay with a beach on which they [taking counsel] purposed to run the ship ashore if they possibly could.
40. So they cut the cables and severed the anchors and left them in the sea; at the same time unlashing the ropes that held the rudders and hoisting the foresail to the wind, they headed for the beach.
41. But striking a crosscurrent (a place open to two seas) they ran the ship aground. The prow stuck fast and remained immovable, and the stern began to break up under the violent force of the waves.