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Acts 27:31

Paul said to the centurion, and to the soldiers: Except these stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine)
dixit Paulus centurioni et militibus : Nisi hi in navi manserint, vos salvi fieri non potestis.
Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
εἶπεν ὁ Παῦλος τῷ ἑκατοντάρχῃ καὶ τοῖς στρατιώταις· Ἐὰν μὴ οὗτοι μείνωσιν ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ, ὑμεῖς σωθῆναι οὐ δύνασθε.

Haydock's commentary

Paul said...unless these stay. Providence had ordered that all should escape, but by helping one another. (Witham)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.

The Fathers on this verse

St John Chrysostom A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily LIII on Acts xxvi. 30-32

See how again also they pass sentence in his favor, and after having said, “Thou art beside thyself,” ( v. 24 ) they acquit him, as undeserving not only of death, but also of bonds, and indeed would have released him entirely, if he had not appealed to Cæsar. But this was done providentially, that he should also depart with bonds. “Unto bonds,” he says, “as an evil doer.” ( 1 Tim. ii. 9 .) For if his Lord “was reckoned among the transgressors” ( Mark xv. 28 ), much more he: but as the Lord did not share with them in their character, so neither did Paul. For in this is seen the marvellous thing, the being mixed up with such, and yet receiving no harm from them. “And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus’ band. …