42. And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
43. But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose, and commanded that they who could swim, should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land:
44. And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship: And so it came to pass, that they all escaped safe to land.