Acts 27:33-44

33And as day was about to dawn, Paul implored them all to take food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day you have waited and continued without food, and eaten nothing.

34Therefore I urge you to take nourishment, for this is for your survival, since not a hair will fall from the head of any of you.”

35And when he had said these things, he took bread and gave thanks to God in the presence of them all; and when he had broken it he began to eat.

36Then they were all encouraged, and also took food themselves.

37And in all we were two hundred and seventy-six persons on the ship.

38So when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship and threw out the wheat into the sea.

39When it was day, they did not recognize the land; but they observed a bay with a beach, onto which they planned to run the ship if possible.

40And they let go the anchors and left them in the sea, meanwhile loosing the rudder ropes; and they hoisted the mainsail to the wind and made for shore.

41But striking a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the prow stuck fast and remained immovable, but the stern was being broken up by the violence of the waves.

42And the soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim away and escape.

43But the centurion, wanting to save Paul, kept them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should jump overboard first and get to land,

44and the rest, some on boards and some on parts of the ship. And so it was that they all escaped safely to land.