Acts 27:42-44

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴² And the soldiers' counsel was, that they should kill the prisoners, lest any of them, swimming out, should escape.

⁴³ But the centurion, willing to save Paul, forbade it to be done; and he commanded that they who could swim, should cast themselves first into the sea, and save themselves, and get to land.

⁴⁴ And the rest, some they carried on boards, and some on those things that belonged to the ship. And so it came to pass, that every soul got safe to land.