And these [new converts] continued regularly [to listen] to the teaching of the apostles and to share with them; they broke bread [in memory of Jesus] and continued praying.

You do not have any share or involvement in this matter because your heart is not right before God.

But, now I want to encourage you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only the ship [will be lost].

So men, cheer up, for I believe God, that everything will turn out just as I was told it would.

But we must be washed onto the shore of a certain island."

So, fearing the possibility of being run aground on a rocky shore, they dropped four anchors from the stern and longed for daylight [to come].

The rest [he reasoned] could reach shore by floating on planks or other debris from the ship. And so it happened that all of them escaped safely to land.

And docking at Syracuse [i.e., a town on the eastern shore of Sicily], we stayed there three days.