23. For this very night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood before me,
24. saying, 'Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar; and behold, God has granted you all those who are sailing with you.'
25. Therefore, keep up your courage, men, for I believe God that it will turn out exactly as I have been told.
26. But we must run aground on a certain island."
27. But when the fourteenth night came, as we were being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors began to surmise that they were approaching some land.
28. They took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and a little farther on they took another sounding and found it to be fifteen fathoms.