44:027:036 Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some
meat.
44:027:037 And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and
sixteen souls.
44:027:038 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and
cast out the wheat into the sea.
44:027:039 And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they
discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they
were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
44:027:040 And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed
themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and
hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.
44:027:041 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.
44:027:042 And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
44:027:043 But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their
purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast
themselves first into the sea, and get to land:
44:027:044 And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the
ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to
land.
44:028:001 And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.