New Living Translation (NLT)
Acts 27
29 At this rate they were afraid we would soon be driven against the rocks along the shore, so they threw out four anchors from the back of the ship and prayed for daylight.
30 Then the sailors tried to abandon the ship; they lowered the lifeboat as though they were going to put out anchors from the front of the ship.
31 But Paul said to the commanding officer and the soldiers, “You will all die unless the sailors stay aboard.”
32 So the soldiers cut the ropes to the lifeboat and let it drift away.
33 Just as day was dawning, Paul urged everyone to eat. “You have been so worried that you haven’t touched food for two weeks,” he said.
34 “Please eat something now for your own good. For not a hair of your heads will perish.”
35 Then he took some bread, gave thanks to God before them all, and broke off a piece and ate it.
36 Then everyone was encouraged and began to eat—
37 all 276 of us who were on board.
38 After eating, the crew lightened the ship further by throwing the cargo of wheat overboard.
39 When morning dawned, they didn’t recognize the coastline, but they saw a bay with a beach and wondered if they could get to shore by running the ship aground.
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