ACTS CHAPTER 28 Acts 28:1,2 Paul and his company, after their shipwreck, are kindly entertained by the barbarians of Melita. Acts 28:3-6 A viper fastening on his hand without hurting him, the people, who at first thought ill of him, believed him a god. Acts 28:7-10 He healeth the father of Publius, and other sick persons by the island. Acts 28:11-16 Paul and his company depart, and arrive at Rome; where Paul is left with a guard in a house of his own. Acts 28:17-22 He calleth the Jews together, and showeth the occasion of his coming. Acts 28:23-29 He preacheth Christ to them, of whom some believe, others believe not. Acts 28:30,31 He continueth for two whole years to preach the gospel without interruption. The island; this was foretold by Paul, Acts 27:26; and therefore though the mariners knew not the land, Acts 27:39, and were not able to direct the ship, as Acts 27:15, yet God so ordered it, that not a word spoken by Paul did fall to the ground, but the wind and sea obey him. Melita; now called Malta, a little island between Sicily and Africa. There is another obscure island in Illyricum that was called by this name, which some have mistook for this place of Paul's shipwreck, by reason that this tempest was in the Adriatic Sea: but not only the Gulf of Venice, but the sea about Sicily, and this coast, was so called, as Strabo witnesseth. See Acts 27:27.
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Acts 28:1
1 And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.