Act_28:1,2 Paul and his company, after their shipwreck, are
kindly entertained by the barbarians of Melita.
Act_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.
Act_28:7-10 He healeth the father of Publius, and other sick
persons by the island.
Act_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.
Act_28:17-22 He calleth the Jews together, and showeth the
occasion of his coming.
Act_28:23-29 He preacheth Christ to them, of whom some believe,
others believe not.
Act_28:30,31 He continueth for two whole years to preach the
gospel without interruption.
The island; this was foretold by Paul, Act_27:26; and therefore though the mariners knew not the land, Act_27:39, and were not able to direct the ship, as Act_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 Act_27:27.