Acts 27:42-44

21st Century King James Version

⁴² And the soldier’s counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out and escape.

⁴³ But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, kept them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should cast themselves first into the sea and get to land,

⁴⁴ and the rest, some on boards and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass that they all escaped safely to land.