Acts 28:1

And we afterwards learned, that the island was called Melita.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2And the barbarians who inhabited it, showed us many kindnesses. And they kindled a fire, and called us all to warm ourselves, because of the great rain and cold at that time.

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Cross References

Acts 27:26Yet we are to be cast upon a certain island.

Acts 27:44And the rest, he made to transport themselves on planks, and on other timbers of the ship. And so they all escaped safe to 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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