Acts 27:33-44

33As day was about to dawn, Paul urged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have kept waiting and going without food, having taken nothing.

34Therefore, I urge you to take some food—for this is for your survival, since not one of you will lose a hair from his head.”

35And when he had said these things, he took bread, gave thanks to God before them all, broke it, and began to eat.

36Then all were encouraged and took some food themselves.

37(In all we were 276 persons on the ship.)

38When they had eaten enough, they began to lighten the ship, throwing the wheat into the sea.

39Then when daylight came, they did not recognize the land; but they noticed a bay with a beach, where they planned to run the ship aground if they could.

40So they cut off the anchors and left them in the sea, while loosening the ropes of the rudders at the same time. Then, hoisting the forward sail to the wind, they made for the beach.

41But they struck a sandbar between the seas and ran the ship aground. The bow stuck fast and remained immovable, and the stern began to break up by the pounding of the waves.

42The plan of the soldiers was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would escape by swimming away.

43But the centurion, wanting to save Paul, kept them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those able to swim to throw themselves overboard first and get to land—

44and the rest to get there on boards and pieces of the ship. And in this way all were brought safely to land.