ACTS XXVII. 9 



And when it was day, they knew not the land : 

 but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, 

 into the which they were minded, if it were pos- 

 sible, to thrust in the ship. 



And when they had taken up the anchors, they 

 committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed 

 the rudder bands, and hoisted up the mainsail to 

 the wind, and made toward shore. 



And falling into a place where two seas met, 

 they ran the ship aground ; and the forepart stuck 

 fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder 

 part was broken with the violence of the waves. 



And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the pri- 

 soners, lest any of them should swim out, and 

 escape. 



But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept 

 them from their purpose ; and commanded that 

 they which could swim should cast themselves 

 first into the sea and get to land : 



And the rest, some on boards, and some on 

 broken jjieces of the ship. And so it came to 

 pass, that they escaped all safe to land. 



