Acts 28:1

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And when they were scaped, then they knewe that the Ile was called Melite.

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 27:26 : 26 Howbeit, we must be cast into a certayne Ilande.
  • Acts 27:39 : 39 And when it was day, they knewe not the lande: but they spyed a certayne hauen with a banke, into the which they were mynded, yf it were possible, to thrust in the shippe.
  • Acts 27:44 : 44 And the other, some on boordes, and some on broke peeces of the shippe. And so it came to passe, that they escaped all safe to lande.
  • Acts 16:10 : 10 And after he had seene ye visio, immediatly we prepared to go into Macedonia, beyng certified that ye Lorde had called vs, for to preache the Gospel vnto them.

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  • Acts 28:2-7
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    2And ye straungers shewed vs no litle kyndnesse: for they kyndled a fyre, and receaued vs euery one, because of the present rayne, and because of the colde.

    3And when Paul had gathered a bondell of stickes, and layde them on the fyre, there came a Uiper out of the heat, and caught hym by the hande.

    4And when the straungers sawe the beast hang on his hande, they sayde among them selues, No doubt this man is a murtherer: Whom though he haue escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffreth not to lyue.

    5And he shoke of the Uiper into the fyre, and felt no harme.

    6Howbeit, they wayted whe he shoulde haue swolne, or fallen downe dead sodenlie: But after they had loked a great while, and sawe no harme come to him, they chaunged their myndes, and sayde that he was a God.

    7In the same quarters were possessios of ye chiefe man of the Ile, whose name was Publius, which receaued vs, and lodged vs three dayes curteouslye.

  • Acts 27:26-30
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    26Howbeit, we must be cast into a certayne Ilande.

    27But when the fourtenth nyght was come, as we were saylyng in Adria, about mydnyght the shypmen deemed that there appeared some countrey vnto them:

    28And sounded, and founde it twentie faddomes. And when they had gone a litle further, they sounded agayne, and founde it fyfteene faddomes.

    29Then fearyng lest they shoulde haue fallen on some rocke, they caste foure anckers out of the sterne, and wisshed for the day.

    30And as the shypmen were about to flee out of the shippe, when they had let downe the boate into the sea, vnder a colour, as though they woulde haue cast anckers out of the foreshippe,

  • Acts 27:43-44
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    43But the vnder captayne wyllyng to saue Paul, kept the from their purpose, & commaunded that they which coulde swymme, shoulde cast them selues first into the sea, and scape to lande:

    44And the other, some on boordes, and some on broke peeces of the shippe. And so it came to passe, that they escaped all safe to lande.

  • Acts 27:38-41
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    38And when they had eaten enough, they lyghted the shippe, and cast out the wheate into the sea.

    39And when it was day, they knewe not the lande: but they spyed a certayne hauen with a banke, into the which they were mynded, yf it were possible, to thrust in the shippe.

    40And when they had taken vp the anckers, they committed themselues vnto the sea, and loosed the rudder bondes, and hoyssed vp the mayne sayle to the wynde, and drewe to lande.

    41And when they fell into a place which had the sea on both sydes, they thrust in the shippe: And the forepart stucke fast & moued not, but the hynder part brake with the violence of the waues.

  • Acts 27:12-20
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    12And because the hauen was not commodious to wynter in, many toke counsell to depart thence, yf by any meanes they myght attayne to Phenice, & there to winter, which is an hauen of Candie, and lyeth towarde the southwest and northwest wynde.

    13And when the south wynde blewe softly, they supposyng to obtayne their purpose, loosed vnto Asson, and sayled past Candie.

    14But not long after, there arose against their purpose, a flawe of wynde out of the northeast.

    15And when the shippe was caught, and coulde not resist the wynde, we let her go, and were dryuen with the weather.

    16But we were caryed into an Ile which is named Clauda, and had much worke to come by a boate,

    17Which they toke vp, and vsed helpe, and made fast the shippe, fearyng least they shoulde fall into the Syrtes: And so they let downe a vessel, & were caried.

    18The next day, when we were tossed with an exceading tempest, they lighted the shippe,

    19And the thirde day, we cast out with our owne handes, the tacklyng of the shippe.

    20And when neither ye sunne nor starres in many dayes appeared, and no small tempest lay vpon vs, all hope that we should be saued, was then taken away.

  • Acts 27:4-8
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    4And when we had launched from thence, we sayled harde by Cypers, because the wyndes were contrarye.

    5And when we had sayled ouer the sea of Cilicia, and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, which is in Lycia.

    6And there the vnder captayne founde a shippe of Alexandria redy, that sayled into Italie, and he put vs therin.

    7And whe we had sayled slowly many dayes, & scarce were come ouer agaynst Guydum, because ye wynde withstoode vs, we sayled harde by Candie, ouer agaynst Salmo,

    8And with much worke sayled beyonde it, and came vnto a place wich is called the Fayre hauens, nye whervnto was the citie of Lasea.

  • Acts 28:9-14
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    9So when this was done, other also which had diseases in the Ile, came and were healed:

    10Which also dyd vs great honour, and when we departed, they laded vs with such thynges as were necessary.

    11And after three monethes we departed in a shippe of Alexandria, which had wyntred in the Ile, whose badge was Castor and Pollux.

    12And when we came to Syracusa, we taryed there three dayes.

    13And from thence we fet a compasse, and came to Rhegium, & after one day the south wynde blewe, and we came the next day to Puteolus:

    14Where we founde brethren, and were desired to tary with them seuen dayes, and so we came towarde Rome.

  • Acts 21:1-3
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    1And when it came to passe that we had lauched forth, and were departed from them, we came with a straight course vnto Choos, and the day folowyng vnto the Rhodes, and from thence vnto Patara.

    2And when we had gotten a shippe that woulde sayle vnto Phenice, we went aboorde, and set foorth.

    3Nowe when Cyprus began to appeare vnto vs, we left it on the left hande, and sayled into Syria, and came vnto Tyre: For there the shippe vnladed the burthen.

  • Acts 20:14-15
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    14And when he was come to vs to Asso, we toke hym in, and came to Mytilene.

    15And we sayled thence, and came the next day ouer agaynst Chios: and the next daye we arryued at Samos, and taryed at Trogylliu. The next day we came to Miletum:

  • Acts 14:6
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    6They were ware of it, and fled vnto Lystra & Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and vnto the regio that lieth rounde about:

  • Mark 6:53-54
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    53And when they had passed ouer, they came into the lande of Genezareth, and drewe vp into the hauen.

    54And assoone as they were come out of the shippe, straightway they knew him,

  • Jonah 1:13
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    13Neuerthelesse, the men assayed with rowing to bring the shippe to lande, but they could not, because the sea wrought, and was troublous against them.

  • Matt 14:34
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    34And when they were gone ouer, they came into the lande of Gennezaret.

  • Acts 21:6
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    6And whe we had taken our leaue one of another, we toke shippe, and they returned home agayne.

  • Jonah 1:11
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    11And they saide vnto him: What shal we do vnto thee, that the sea may be calme vnto vs? For the sea wrought and was troublous.

  • Matt 14:32
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    32And when they were come into the shippe, the wynde ceassed