27 When the fourteenth night came, we were drifting in the Adriatic Sea, and about midnight the sailors thought they were approaching land. 28 They took soundings and found it to be a hundred twenty feet[a] deep; when they had sailed a little farther and sounded again, they found it to be ninety feet[b] deep. 29 Then, fearing we might run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daylight to come.

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Footnotes

  1. 27:28 Lit twenty fathoms
  2. 27:28 Lit fifteen fathoms

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