Acts:27:14-38

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* But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind , called Euroclydon . * And when the ship was caught , and could not bear up into the wind , we let her drive . * And running under a certain island which is called Clauda , we had much work to come by the boat : * Which when they had taken up , they used helps , undergirding the ship ; and , fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands , strake sail , and so were driven . * And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest , the next day they lightened the ship ; * And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship . * And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared , and no small tempest lay on us , all hope that we should be saved was then taken away . * But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them , and said , Sirs , ye should have hearkened unto me , and not have loosed from Crete , and to have gained this harm and loss . * And now I exhort you to be of good cheer : for there shall be no loss of any man 's life among you , but of the ship . * For there stood by me this night the angel of God , whose I am , and whom I serve , * Saying , Fear not , Paul ; thou must be brought before Caesar : and , lo , God hath given thee all them that sail with thee . * Wherefore , sirs , be of good cheer : for I believe God , that it shall be even as it was told me . * Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island . * But when the fourteenth night was come , as we were driven up and down in Adria , about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country ; * And sounded , and found it twenty fathoms : and when they had gone a little further , they sounded again , and found it fifteen fathoms . * Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks , they cast four anchors out of the stern , and wished for the day . * And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship , when they had let down the boat into the sea , under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship , * Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers , Except these abide in the ship , ye cannot be saved . * Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat , and let her fall off . * And while the day was coming on , Paul besought them all to take meat , saying , This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting , having taken nothing . * Wherefore I pray you to take some meat : for this is for your health : for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you . * And when he had thus spoken , he took bread , and gave thanks to God in presence of them all : and when he had broken it , he began to eat . * Then were they all of good cheer , and they also took some meat . * And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls . * And when they had eaten enough , they lightened the ship , and cast out the wheat into the sea .

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