27 It was the fourteenth night, and we were being driven about in the Mediterranean by the storm. About midnight the sailors suspected that we were getting close to land.
28 So they dropped a line with a weight tied to it and found that the water was forty metres deep; a little later they did the same and found that it was thirty metres deep.
29 They were afraid that the ship would go on the rocks, so they lowered four anchors from the back of the ship and prayed for daylight.
30 Then the sailors tried to escape from the ship; they lowered the boat into the water and pretended that they were going to put out some anchors from the front of the ship.
31 But Paul said to the army officer and soldiers, “If the sailors don't stay on board, you have no hope of being saved.”
32 So the soldiers cut the ropes that held the boat and let it go.
33 Just before dawn, Paul begged them all to eat some food: “You have been waiting for fourteen days now, and all this time you have not eaten anything.