Acts 28:1
And after we had escaped, we then realized that the island was called Malta. Yet truly, the natives offered us no small amount of humane treatment.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.
In Context
2For they refreshed us all by kindling a fire, because rain was imminent and because of the cold.
Cross References
Acts 27:26But it is necessary for us to arrive at a certain island.”
Acts 27:44And as for the others, some they carried on boards, and others on those things that belonged to the ship. And so it happened that every soul escaped to the 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 →