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Acts 27:42
And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
Acts 27:42 · American Standard Version
Acts 27:42 in other translations
And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners so none of them could swim to freedom.
The soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.
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In context
39 And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they perceived a certain bay with a beach, and they took counsel whether they could drive the ship upon it.
40 And casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time loosing the bands of the rudders; and hoisting up the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.
41 But lighting upon a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground; and the foreship struck and remained unmoveable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves.
42 And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
43 But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stayed them from their purpose; and commanded that they who could swim should cast themselves overboard, and get first to the land;
44 and the rest, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. And so it came to pass, that they all escaped safe to the land.
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