Acts 27:32-34

J.B. Phillips New Testament

³² At this the soldiers cut the ropes of the boat and let her fall away.

Paul’s sturdy commonsense

^33-34 Then while everyone waited for the day to break Paul urged them to take some food, saying, “For a fortnight now you’ve had no food—you haven’t had a bite while you’ve been on watch. Now take some food, I beg of you—you need it for your own well-being, for not a hair of anyone’s head will be lost.”