Acts 27:43
But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast first , and get to land:
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41 And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, 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, willing to save Paul, kept them from purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast first , and get to land:
44 And the rest, some on boards, and some on of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.