Acts 27:41-43

Jubilee Bible 2000

⁴¹ But falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast and remained unmovable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.

⁴² And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out and escape.

⁴³ But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, frustrated this counsel and commanded that those who could swim should cast themselves first into the sea and get to land;