Acts 28:1

When we were all safe, we found that the island was called Malta.

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

In Context

2The island’s people showed us marked kindness, for they lit a fire and took us all under shelter, because it had come on to rain and was cold.

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Cross References

Acts 27:26We will, however, have to be driven on some island.”

Acts 27:44and that the rest should follow, some on planks, and others on different pieces of the ship. In these various ways everyone managed to get safely ashore.

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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