27. On the fourteenth night, as we were still being driven about on the Adriatic Sea, toward midnight the sailors began to suspect that they were nearing land.
28. They took soundings and found twenty fathoms; a little farther on, they again took soundings and found fifteen fathoms.
29. Fearing that we would run aground on a rocky coast, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come.
30. The sailors then tried to abandon ship; they lowered the dinghy to the sea on the pretext of going to lay out anchors from the bow.
31. But Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved.”