Acts 27:39-44

Revised Geneva Translation

³⁹ And when it was day, they did not recognize the country. But they spied a certain creek with a bank, into which they intended (if possible) to thrust in the ship.

⁴⁰ So when they had taken up the anchors, they committed to the sea, and released the rudder ropes, and hoisted up the mainsail to the wind, and drew to the shore.

⁴¹ And having fallen into a place where two seas met, they thrust in the ship. And the bow stuck fast, and could not be moved. But the stern was broken with the violence of the waves.

⁴² Then the soldiers planned to kill the prisoners, so that none of them could swim away and escape.

⁴³ But the Centurion (wanting to save Paul) stopped them from carrying out this plan, and commanded that those who could swim should cast themselves into the sea first, and get to land

⁴⁴ (as well as the others - some on boards, and some on certain pieces of the ship). And so it happened that they all were brought safely to land.