42. The soldiers made a plan to kill all the prisoners, in order to keep them from swimming ashore and escaping.
43. But the army officer wanted to save Paul, so he stopped them from doing this. Instead, he ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and swim ashore;
44. the rest were to follow, holding on to the planks or to some broken pieces of the ship. And this was how we all got safely ashore.