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Acts 27:43 (ANIV)
But the centurion [Julius] wanted to spare Paul’s life and kept them [the Roman soldiers] from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land.

DRAWING NOTES:

TIME OF DAY:
Shortly after dawn.

LIGHTING NOTES:
The rising sun (on right (East)) illuminates this scene.

CHARACTERS PRESENT:
Various people (passengers, sailors and prisoners) jumping into the sea.
A Roman soldier is freeing apostle Paul from his chains. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica is standing on the deck, waiting to be freed from his chains.

RESEARCH/ADDITIONAL NOTES:
This scene primarily shows various people jumping into the sea and starting to swim ashore. We know from verse 43 that centurion Julius wanted to save Paul’s life, and so ordered the Roman soldiers under his command not to kill the prisoners.

I imagine the soldiers were ordered to remove the chains from the prisoners before they were sent overboard, otherwise the shackled men would have sunk to the bottom of the bay! To illustrate this in my picture I have drawn the apostle Paul with his manacled wrist resting on an iron anvil, on the deck of the ship. A Roman soldier has a hammer & spike, and will use these tools to free Paul and the other prisoners from their bonds.