Acts 27:21-32

21Since many of them had no desire to eat, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have listened to me and not put out to sea from Crete, thus avoiding this damage and loss.

22And now I advise you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only the ship will be lost.

23For last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve came to me

24and said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul! You must stand before Caesar, and God has graciously granted you the safety of all who are sailing with you.’

25Therefore keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will be just as I have been told.

26But we must run aground on some island.”

27When the fourteenth night had come, while we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected they were approaching some land.

28They took soundings and found the water was twenty fathoms deep; when they had sailed a little farther they took soundings again and found it was fifteen fathoms deep.

29Because they were afraid that we would run aground on the rocky coast, they threw out four anchors from the stern and wished for day to appear.

30Then when the sailors tried to escape from the ship and were lowering the ship’s boat into the sea, pretending that they were going to put out anchors from the bow,

31Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved.”

32Then the soldiers cut the ropes of the ship’s boat and let it drift away.