41. But striking a sandbar where two seas met, they ran the ship aground. The bow stuck and remained immovable, but the stern was broken up by the violent surf.
42. The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim away and escape.
43. But the centurion, wanting to save Paul, prevented them from their intent and ordered those who could swim to abandon ship first and get to land,
44. and the rest on planks or on pieces of the ship. And in this way they all escaped safely to land.