22 Yet now I urge you to take heart, for there will be no loss of life among you—but only of the ship.
23 For this very night, there came to me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve.
24 He said, ‘Do not fear, Paul. You must stand before Caesar; and indeed, God has granted you all who are sailing with you.’
25 So take heart, men, for I trust God that it will be exactly as I have been told.
26 But we must run aground on some island.”
27 Now when the fourteenth night had come, as we were drifting across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors began to sense that they were nearing some land.
28 So they took soundings and found the water was twenty fathoms deep. A bit farther along, they took another sounding and found it was fifteen fathoms deep.