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What does Acts 27:44 mean?
"and the rest should follow, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. So they all escaped safely to the land."
— Acts 27:44 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
But coming to a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground. The bow struck and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves.
The soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.
But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;
and the rest should follow, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. So they all escaped safely to the land.
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