Acts 27:27-36

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.

33Just before daybreak Paul was encouraging everyone to have something to eat. “This is the fourteenth day you have waited and have had nothing to eat.

34So I’m encouraging you to eat something. Eating will help you survive, since not a hair from anyone’s head will be lost.”

35After Paul said this, he took some bread, thanked God in front of everyone, broke it, and began to eat.

36Everyone was encouraged and had something to eat.