Acts 28:1

And having been brought safely through, we then found out that the island is called Malta.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2And the natives were showing not the ordinary kindness to us for, because of the geshem (rain) that had set in and because of the cold, they lit a hadlakah (bonfire).

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Cross References

Acts 27:26But it is necessary for us to run aground on some island.

Acts 27:44As for the rest, some were on planks, others on pieces from the oniyah. And so everyone was brought safely onto 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 →

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