44:027:032 Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her
           fall off.

44:027:033 And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to
           take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have
           tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.

44:027:034 Wherefore I pray you to take some meat:  for this is for your
           health:  for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any
           of you.

44:027:035 And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to
           God in presence of them all:  and when he had broken it, he
           began to eat.

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.

44:028:002 And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness:  for
           they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the
           present rain, and because of the cold.

44:028:003 And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them
           on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened
           on his hand.

44:028:004 And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his
           hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a
           murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance
           suffereth not to live.