Acts 27:21-32

21Since hardly anyone wanted to eat, Paul stood among them and said, “Men, you should have followed my advice not to sail from Crete. You would have avoided this disaster and loss.

22Now I advise you to have courage. No one will lose his life. Only the ship will be destroyed.

23I know this because an angel from the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood by me last night.

24The angel told me, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul! You must present your case to the emperor. God has granted safety to everyone who is sailing with you.’

25So have courage, men! I trust God that everything will turn out as he told me.

26However, we will run aground on some island.”

27On the fourteenth night we were still drifting through the Mediterranean Sea. About midnight the sailors suspected that we were approaching land.

28So they threw a line with a weight on it into the water. It sank 120 feet. They waited a little while and did the same thing again. This time the line sank 90 feet.

29Fearing we might hit rocks, they dropped four anchors from the back of the ship and prayed for morning to come.

30The sailors tried to escape from the ship. They let the lifeboat down into the sea and pretended they were going to lay out the anchors from the front of the ship.

31Paul told the officer and the soldiers, “If these sailors don’t stay on the ship, you have no hope of staying alive.”

32Then the soldiers cut the ropes that held the lifeboat and let it drift away.