28. They took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and a little farther on they took another sounding and found it to be fifteen fathoms.
29. Fearing that we might run aground somewhere on the rocks, they cast four anchors from the stern and wished for daybreak.
30. But as the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had let down the ship's boat into the sea, on the pretense of intending to lay out anchors from the bow,
31. Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless these men remain in the ship, you yourselves cannot be saved."