Acts 27:37–44

³⁷In all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on the ship.↗

³⁸When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.↗

³⁹When it was day, they didn’t recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it.↗

⁴⁰Casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.↗

⁴¹But coming to a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground. The bow struck and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves.↗

⁴²The soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.↗

⁴³But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;↗

⁴⁴and the rest should follow, some on planks and some on other things from the ship. So they all escaped safely to the land.↗