Acts 28:1
And having been saved, we recognized that the island is called Melita.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.
In Context
Cross References
Acts 27:26But it behooves us to fall upon a certain island.
Acts 27:44and the rest, some on planks, and others on some parts from the ship. And thus it came to pass that all came safe 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 →