Acts 28:1
And when we had escaped, then we knew that the island was called Melita. But the barbarians shewed us no small courtesy.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.
In Context
2For kindling a fire, they refreshed us all, because of the present rain, and of the cold.
Cross References
Acts 27:26And we must come unto a certain island.
Acts 27:44And the rest, some they carried on boards, and some on those things that belonged to the ship. And so it came to pass, that every soul 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 →