Acts 27:28-30

Modern English Version

²⁸ They took soundings and found the water to be one hundred and twenty feet deep.^[a] When they had gone a little farther, they took soundings again and found it to be ninety feet deep.^{[b] 29} Fearing that we might run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come. ³⁰ When the sailors strove to abandon ship and lowered the rowboat into the sea, under the pretext of lowering anchors out of the bow,