Acts 28:1

And when we were safe, we made the discovery that the island was named Melita.

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And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.

In Context

2And the simple people living there were uncommonly kind to us, for they made a fire for us, and took us in, because it was raining and cold.

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Cross References

Acts 27:26But we will be sent on to a certain island.

Acts 27:44And the rest, some on boards and some on things from the ship. And so it came about that they all got safe to land.

Matthew Henry on Acts 28:1

We are the more concerned to take notice of and to improve what is here recorded concerning blessed Paul because, after the story of this chapter, we hear no more of him in the sacred history, though we have a great deal of him yet before us in his epistles. We have attended him through several chapters from one judgment-seat to another, and could at last have taken leave of him with the more pleasure if we had left him at liberty; but in this chapter we are to condole with him, and yet congratulate him. I. We… Read the whole commentary →

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