After he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave his people their land as an inheritance.

He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”

and said to him, ‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’

and the rest were to follow, some on planks and some on pieces of the ship. And in this way all were brought safely to land.

When they heard this, they raised their voices to God with one mind and said, “Master of all, you who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them,

Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this country where you now live.

When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You are hurting yourself by kicking against the goads.’

When day came, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.

But the centurion, wanting to save Paul’s life, prevented them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land,

“Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.