22 But now I tell you to cheer up because none of you will die. Only the ship will be lost.
23 Last night an angel came to me from the God I belong to and worship.
24 The angel said, ‘Paul, do not be afraid. You must stand before Caesar. And God has promised you that he will save the lives of everyone sailing with you.’
25 So men, have courage. I trust in God that everything will happen as his angel told me.
26 But we will crash on an island.”
27 On the fourteenth night we were still being carried around in the Adriatic Sea. About midnight the sailors thought we were close to land,
28 so they lowered a rope with a weight on the end of it into the water. They found that the water was one hundred twenty feet deep. They went a little farther and lowered the rope again. It was ninety feet deep.