Acts 28:1

After we (exc) had arrived safely on the shore, we learned that it was an island called Malta.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2The people who lived there received us kindly. They lit a fire and invited us to come and warm ourselves, because it was raining and it was cold.

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Cross References

Acts 27:26However, the ship will crash on some island, and we (inc) will go ashore there.”

Acts 27:44Then he told the others to hold onto planks or pieces from the ship and go towards shore. We(exc) did what he said, and in that way all of us arrived safely on 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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