Acts 27:43
King James Version
“But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast first and get to land:”
Context
40And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.
41And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
42And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
43But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast first and get to land:
44And the rest, some on boards, and some on of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.