Acts 27:23-33

23 "For this very night ¹an angel of the God to whom I belong and ²whom I serve ³stood before me,

24 saying, 'Do not be afraid, Paul; ⁴you must stand before Caesar; and behold, God has granted you ⁵all those who are sailing with you.'

25 "Therefore, ⁶keep up your courage, men, for I believe God that it will turn out exactly * * as I have been told.

26 "But we must ⁷run aground on a certain ⁸island."

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 ⁹run 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 ¹⁰the 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 ¹¹ropes 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.

Cross References

• 1. Acts 5:19
• 2. Romans 1:9
• 3. Acts 18:9; Acts 23:11; 2 Timothy 4:17
• 4. Acts 23:11
• 5. Acts 27:31, 42, 44
• 6. Acts 27:22, 36
• 7. Acts 27:17, 29
• 8. Acts 28:1
• 9. Acts 27:17, 26
• 10. Acts 27:16
• 11. John 2:15

Footnotes

• [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"