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After everyone had gone a long time without food, Paul stood before them and said, "You should have listened to me and not have sailed from Crete; then we would have avoided all this damage and loss.
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But now I beg you, take courage! Not one of you will lose your life; only the ship will be lost.
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For last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship came to me
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and said, "Don't be afraid, Paul! You must stand before the Emperor. And God in his goodness to you has spared the lives of all those who are sailing with you.'
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So take courage, men! For I trust in God that it will be just as I was told.
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But we will be driven ashore on some island."
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It was the fourteenth night, and we were being driven in the Mediterranean by the storm. About midnight the sailors suspected that we were getting close to land.
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So they dropped a line with a weight tied to it and found that the water was one hundred and twenty feet deep; a little later they did the same and found that it was ninety feet deep.
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They were afraid that the ship would go on the rocks, so they lowered four anchors from the back of the ship and prayed for daylight.
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Then the sailors tried to escape from the ship; they lowered the boat into the water and pretended that they were going to put out some anchors from the front of the ship.
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But Paul said to the army officer and soldiers, "If the sailors don't stay on board, you have no hope of being saved."