22and now I exhort you to be of good cheer, for there shall be no loss of life among you -- but of the ship;
23for there stood by me this night a messenger of God -- whose I am, and whom I serve --
24saying, Be not afraid Paul; before Caesar it behoveth thee to stand; and, lo, God hath granted to thee all those sailing with thee;
25wherefore be of good cheer, men! for I believe God, that so it shall be, even as it hath been spoken to me,
26and on a certain island it behoveth us to be cast.`
27And when the fourteenth night came -- we being borne up and down in the Adria -- toward the middle of the night the sailors were supposing that some country drew nigh to them;
28and having sounded they found twenty fathoms, and having gone a little farther, and again having sounded, they found fifteen fathoms,
