Acts 28:1
Following the rescue, they learned that the island was called Malta.
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.
In Context
Cross References
Acts 27:26Also, we must run aground on a certain island.”
Acts 27:44followed by the rest, some on planks and some on things from the ship. And in this way they all escaped safely 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 →