22 “Yet now I urge you to akeep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

23 “For this very night aan angel of the God to whom I belong and bwhom I serve cstood before me,

24 saying, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; ayou must stand before Caesar; and behold, God has granted you ball those who are sailing with you.’

25 “Therefore, akeep up your courage, men, for I believe God that 1it will turn out exactly as I have been told.

26 “But we must arun aground on a certain bisland.”

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 1they 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 arun aground somewhere on the 1rocks, they cast four anchors from the stern and 2wished for daybreak.

30 But as the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had let down athe 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 aropes of the ship’s boat and let it fall away.