Acts 28:1
And when we were escaped, we ascertained that the island was called Malta.
Montgomery 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 27:26"But we must be cast upon a certain island."
Acts 27:44and that the rest should follow, some on planks and some on other bits of wreckage. And so it came to pass that all escaped 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 →