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Acts 28:1

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

KJV

Καὶ διασωθέντες τότε ἐπέγνωμεν ὅτι Μελίτη ἡ νῆσος καλεῖται.

Greek NT

Et cum evasissemus, tunc cognovimus quia Melita insula vocabatur. Barbari vero præstabant non modicam humanitatem nobis.

Vulgate

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

ASV

And when we had escaped, then we knew that the island was called Melita. But the barbarians shewed us no small courtesy.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Μελίτη
melite
noun · 1×
διασώζω
diasozo
verb · 8×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καλέω
kaleo
verb · 148×
νῆσος
nesos
noun · 9×
τότε
tote
adverb · 157×
ἐπιγινώσκω
epiginosko
verb · 44×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: ἐπέγνωμεν | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐπέγνωμεν | RP: ἐπέγνωσαν
  • ἐπέγνωμενSBLGNT
  • ἐπέγνωμενWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἐπέγνωσανRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: Μελίτη | Treg/NIV/RP: Μελίτη | WH: Μελιτήνη
  • ΜελίτηSBLGNT
  • ΜελίτηTregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
  • ΜελιτήνηWestcott-Hort
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Acts 27:26 — Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.
  • Acts 27:26 — Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.
  • Acts 27:39 — And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
  • Acts 27:39 — And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
  • Acts 27:44 — And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.
  • Phil 1:12 — But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;