34. Therefore I urge you to take some food, for this is necessary for your preservation. For not a hair from your head will be lost.”
35. And after he said these things and took bread, he gave thanks to God in front of them all, and after breaking it, he began to eat.
36. So they all were encouraged and partook of food themselves.
37. (Now we were in all two hundred seventy six persons on the ship.)
38. And when they had eaten their fill of food, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.