Matthew(i)
14 But anone after there arose againste their purpose, a flowe of winde out of the northeaste.
15 And when the shyp was caughte, and coulde not resiste the winde, we lette her go & draue with the wether.
16 And we came vnto an yle named Clauda, and had muche worke to come by a bote,
17 whiche they toke vp an vsed helpe, vndergerdinge the shippe, fearinge lest they shoulde haue fallen into Syrtes and we let doune a vessell and so were caried.
18 The nexte daye, when we were tossed with an excedinge tempest, they lightened the shippe,
19 & the third daye we cast out with oure owne handes, the tacklinge of the shippe.
20 When at the laste nether sunne nor starre in manye dayes appeared, and no smal tempest laye vpon vs, all hope that we shoulde be saued, was then taken awaye.
21 Then after longe abstinence, Paul stode forth in the middest of them and saied: Syrs ye shoulde haue herkened to me, and not haue loused from Candy, neyther to haue brought vnto vs this harme and losse.
22 And nowe I exhorte you to be of good chere, for there shall be no losse of anye mans lyfe amonge you, saue of the shyppe onelye.
23 For there stode by me this nyght the aungell of God. Whose I am, and whom I serue,
24 sayinge. Feare not Paule, for thou muste be broughte before Cesar. And lo, God hath geuen vnto the all that sayle wyth the.
25 Wherfore Syrs be of good cheare: for I beleue God, that so it shal be euen as it was tolde me.
26 How be it we must be cast into a certaine Ilande.
27 But when the fourtenth nyghte was come, as we were caryed in Adria about midnyght, the shipmen demed that there appeared some countreye vnto them:
28 and sounded, and founde it .xx. feadoms. And when they had gone a litle further, they sounded againe, and founde .xv. feadoms.
29 Then fearing lest they should haue fallen on some Rocke, they cast .iiij. ancres out the sterne, and wyshed for the day.
30 As the shipmen were about to flee out of the shyp, & had let doune the bote into the sea, vnder a coloure, as though they woulde haue cast ancres out of the forshyppe:
31 Paule sayed vnto the vnder captaine, and the souldiers: excepte these abyde in the shyp, ye can not be safe.
32 Then the souldiers cut of the rope of the bote, and let it fall away.
33 And in the meane tyme betwixt that and daye, Paule besoughte them al to take meate, sayinge: thys is the fourtenth daye, that ye haue taried, and continued fastinge, receiuinge nothinge at all.
34 Wherfore I praye you take meate: for thys no doubte is for your health: for there shall not an heire fal from the heade of anye of you.
35 And when he had thus spoken, he toke bread, and gaue thankes to God in presence of them all, and brake it, and began to eate.
36 Then were they all of good cheare, and they also toke meate.
37 We were all together in the shippe, two hundreth three score and sixtene soules.
38 And when they had eaten inough, they lyghtened the shippe, & cast out the wheate into the sea.