Acts 27:25-35

25 "Therefore, 1keep up your courage, men, for I believe God that it will turn out exactly * * as I have been told.
26 "But we must 2run aground on a certain 3island."
27 But when the fourteenth night came, as we were being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight * the sailors began to surmise that they were approaching some land.
28 They took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and a little farther on they took another sounding and found it to be fifteen fathoms.
29 Fearing that we might 4run aground somewhere on the rocks, they cast four anchors from the stern and wished for daybreak.
30 But as the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had let down 5the ship's boat into the sea, on the pretense of intending to lay out anchors from the bow,
31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless * these men remain in the ship, you yourselves cannot * be saved."
32 Then the soldiers cut away the 6ropes of the ship's boat and let it fall away.
33 Until the day was about to dawn, Paul was 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 nothing.
34 "Therefore I encourage you to take some food, for this is for your preservation, for 7not a hair from the head of any of you will perish."
35 Having said this, he took bread and 8gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and he broke it and began to eat.

Cross References 8

Footnotes 4

  • [a]. Lit "it will be"
  • [b]. Lit "some land was approaching them"
  • [c]. Lit "rough places"
  • [d]. Lit "they were praying for it to become day"
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