Chapter 27, verses 21-27
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When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle of them, and said, “Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, and have gotten this injury and loss.
22
Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.
23
For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,
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saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’
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Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.
26
But we must run aground on a certain island.”
27
But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.
