Acts 27:43

Acts 27:43-44 Eventually the centurion felt too grateful to Paul to allow any such thing to happen. "Again we see that for the sake of one righteous man, the lives of all the prisoners were spared" (Reese p. 917). The centurion instead orders the soldiers who could swim to do so and get to land first and then they could collect the prisoners as they came in. "That they all were brought safely to land" "It was. remarkable instance of divine interposition to save so many through so long-continued dangers; and it shows that God can defend in any peril, and can accomplish all His purposes. On the ocean or the land we are safe in His keeping; and He can devise ways that shall fulfill all His purposes. Indeed, we have seen that God's men are good men to have around in any event" (Barnes p. 369).