Acts 27:33-44

33Until the day was about to dawn, Paul kept encouraging them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have been constantly watching and going without eating, having taken in nothing. 34Therefore, I encourage you to take some food, for this is for your survival, for 1not a hair from the head of any of you will perish.” 35Having said this, he took bread and 2gave thanks to God in the presence of them all, and he broke it and began to eat. 36All 3of them 4were encouraged and they themselves also took food. 37We were 276 56people on the ship in all. 38When they had eaten enough, they began lightening the ship by 7throwing the wheat out into the sea.

39Now when day came, 8they 9could not recognize the land; but they did notice a bay with a beach, and they resolved to run the ship onto it if they could. 40And casting off 10the anchors, they left them in the sea while at the same time they were loosening the ropes of the rudders; and they hoisted the foresail to the wind and were heading for the beach. 41But they struck a 11reef where two seas met and ran the ship aground; and the prow stuck firmly and remained immovable, while the stern started to break up due to the force of the waves. 42The soldiers’ plan was to 12kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim away and escape; 43but the centurion, 13wanting to bring Paul safely through, kept them from accomplishing their intention, and commanded that those who could swim were to 14jump overboard first and get to land, 44and the rest were to follow, some on planks, and others on various things from the ship. And so it happened that 15they all were brought safely to land.