Acts 27:41-43

Expanded Bible

⁴¹ But the ship hit a ·sandbank [reef; shoal; or cross-current; ^Lplace of two seas]. The front of the ship stuck there and could not move, but the ·back of the ship [stern] began to break up from the big waves.

⁴² The soldiers ·decided [made a decision] to kill the prisoners so none of them could swim away and escape. ⁴³ But ·Julius, the officer, [^Lthe centurion] wanted to ·let Paul live [^Lsave Paul] and ·did not allow the soldiers to kill the prisoners [^Lstopped them from their plan]. Instead he ordered everyone who could swim to jump into the water first and swim to land.