Acts 27:41-43

21st Century King James Version

⁴¹ And falling into a place where two currents met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up with the violence of the waves.

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

⁴³ But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, kept them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should cast themselves first into the sea and get to land,