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,
29and fearing lest on rough places we may fall, out of the stern having cast four anchors, they were wishing day to come.
30And the sailors seeking to flee out of the ship, and having let down the boat to the sea, in pretence as [if] out of the foreship they are about to cast anchors,
31Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, `If these do not remain in the ship -- ye are not able to be saved;`
