Verse 1
Paul on the Isle of Malta , Acts 28:1-11 .
1. Escaped The wreck of a great merchantman, and the escape of two hundred and seventy-six persons to the shore, would attract a large company of the rural population to the shore. The city of Valetta, the present capital, was but five miles distance.
They knew Either because some of them recognised some aspects of the place, or because they learned it from the inhabitants.
Melita Malta. (See map.) It is about sixty miles south of Sicily. Originally peopled by the Phoenicians, it was conquered by the Greeks, and subsequently, as in Paul’s time, belonged to the Romans. In the ninth century it was conquered by the Saracens, from whom it was won, with a heroism celebrated in history, by “the Knights of Malta.” It now is owned by England. (Note Acts 27:27.)
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