Acts 28:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 27:26
Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.
Acts 27:44
And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.
Acts 27:39
And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
Acts 16:10
And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them.

Topics

Melita (malta)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-10)

What a great variety of places and circumstances do we find Paul in! He was a planet, and not a fixed star. Here we have him in an island to which, in all probability, he had never come if he had not been thrown upon it by a storm; and yet it seems God has work for him to do here. Even stormy winds fulfil God’s counsel, and an ill wind indeed it is that blows nobody any good; this ill wind blew go…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Ac 28:1-31. The Wintering at Malta, and Notable Occurrences There--Prosecution of the Voyage to Italy as Far as Puteoli, and Land Journey Thence to Rome--Summary of the Apostle’s Labors There for the Two Following Years. 1. knew the island was called Melita--(See on Ac 27:39). The opinion that this island was not Malta to the south of Sicily, but Meleda in the Gulf of Venice--which till lately had…