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Acts 28:1 — King James Version← Study notes

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


Acts 28:1Greek Interlinear

Greek · Acts 28:19 words
GreekMeaning
ΚαὶKai
AndwordG2532
διασωθέντεςdiasōthentes
having been savedverbG1295
τότεtote
thenadverbG5119
ἐπέγνωμενepegnōmen
(ac-, have, take)know(-ledgeverbG1921
ὅτιhoti
thatwordG3754
ΜελίτηMelitē
MaltanounG3194
thearticleG3588
νῆσοςnēsos
islandnounG3520
καλεῖταιkaleitai
is calledverbG2564
Greek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.

Church Fathers on Acts 28:1

Showed, he says, no little kindness to us — barbarians (as they were )— having kindled a fire: else it were of no use that their lives be saved, if the wintry weather must destroy them. Then Paul having taken brushwood, laid it on the fire. See how active he is; observe how we nowhere find him doing miracles for the sake of doing them, but only upon emergency. Both during the storm when there was a cause he prophesied, not for the sake of prophesying, and here again in the…

Chrysostom · 4th century · Homily 54 on Acts
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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Carlos RiveraNote3mo ago
The Island of Unexpected Rest
The ship breaks apart on the rocks, and everyone washes ashore on Malta, an island neither Paul nor his companions had planned to visit. All 276 people survive. Shipwrecked but alive. The island becom...
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