And while day was dawning, Paul kept urging them all to take some food. "This is the fourteenth day," he said, "that you have been on the watch, fasting, having eaten nothing.

"The prison we found locked fast, with the guards stationed at the doors, but when they were opened we found no one inside."

On receiving so strict an order he cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

By this time the season was far advanced, and sailing had become dangerous (for the Autumn Fast was past); so Paul began to warn them.