Acts 27:42-44

American Standard Version

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, stayed them from their purpose; and commanded that they who could swim should cast themselves overboard, and get first to the land; ⁴⁴ and the rest, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. And so it came to pass, that they all escaped safe to the land.