Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved.”
Now let me give you some advice as to how you can save your life and your son Solomon’s life.
Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.
But the centurion was more convinced by the captain and the ship’s owner than by what Paul said.
Then when the sailors tried to escape from the ship and were lowering the ship’s boat into the sea, pretending that they were going to put out anchors from the bow,
Then the soldiers cut the ropes of the ship’s boat and let it drift away.
and the rest were to follow, some on planks and some on pieces of the ship. And in this way all were brought safely to land.