Kisah Para Rasul 28:7

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Maka dekat dengan tempat itu juga adalah beberapa bidang tanah yang dipunyai oleh seorang bernama Pubelius, penghulu pulau itu; maka ia telah menyambut dan menjamu kami dengan kemurahan tiga hari lamanya.

Contextual Overview

¹ And when they were scaped, then they knewe that the Ile was called Melite. ² And 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. ³ And 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. ⁴ And 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. ⁵ And he shoke of the Uiper into the fyre, and felt no harme. ⁶ Howbeit, 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. ⁷ In 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. ⁸ And it came to passe, that the father of Publius lay sicke of a feuer, and of a bloody flixe: to whom Paul entred in, & prayed, and layde his handes on hym, and healed hym. ⁹ So when this was done, other also which had diseases in the Ile, came and were healed: ¹⁰ Which also dyd vs great honour, and when we departed, they laded vs with such thynges as were necessary.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the chief: Acts 13:7, Acts 18:12, Acts 23:24

who: Acts 28:2, Matthew 10:40, Matthew 10:41, Luke 19:6-9

Reciprocal: Luke 10:9 - heal Acts 13:12 - the deputy 1 Peter 3:8 - courteous

Cross-References

Genesis 27:43
Nowe therefore my sonne heare my voyce: make thee redy, and flee to Laban my brother at Haran,

Exodus 20:12
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy dayes may be long in the lande whiche the Lorde thy God geueth thee.

Leviticus 19:3
Ye shall feare euery man his mother and his father, & kepe my Sabbathes: I am the Lorde your God.

Proverbs 1:8
My sonne, heare thy fathers doctrine, & forsake not the lawe of thy mother:

Proverbs 30:17
Who so laugheth his father to scorne, and setteth his mothers commaundement at naught, the rauens of the valley picke out his eyes, and deuoured be he of the young Egles.

Ephesians 6:1
Chyldren, obey your fathers and mothers in the Lorde: for this is ryght.

Ephesians 6:3
That thou mayest prosper, and lyue long on earth.

Colossians 3:20
Chyldren, obey your fathers and mothers in all thynges, for that is well pleasyng vnto the Lorde.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island,.... Or "the first man of the island"; so the governor of Melita used to be called, as appears by an inscription mentioned by Bochart, wherein a Roman knight is called πρωτος μελιταιων, "the first of the Melitians"; for this island was under the Roman government, and the very name of this chief man shows it: it was first in the hands of the Africans, when Dido built Carthage, which was eight or nine hundred years before the time of Christ: Battus was king of this island, from whom it was taken by Hiarbas king of Lybia, or of the Getulians, and who also conquered Carthage; and it continued under the power of the Carthaginians, until they were conquered by the Romans; and then it was taken by Titus Sempronius, above two hundred years before Christ, in whose hands it was when the apostle was here; since then it has been taken by the Saracenes, though they held it not, being taken from them by Roger earl of Sicily, in the year 1090; and so it remained in the hands of the Sicilians, until the knights of Rhodes were driven out of that island by the Turks, in 1522; and then this was given them by the Emperor Charles the Fifth seven years after, on condition they would oppose the Turks, and defend that part of Christendom, which they bravely did: in the year 1565, it was besieged by Pialis Bassa, but without success x; and it is said to be so well fortified, as that it is impossible it should be taken, unless through treachery or famine; it is now in the hands of the said knights: but whether this man was governor of the island or not, it may be reasonably thought that he was the richest man in the island, and in the greatest honour and dignity; and had near the shore, where the ship's company landed, many houses and much land, and farms and vineyards, and the like:

whose name was Publius; or Poplius, as some copies, and the Syriac version read. Publius was a name common with the Romans; it was with them a forename, by which such were called, who were "pupilli", or fatherless, for it is a contraction of "Popilius". There was one of this name who was bishop of Athens, said to succeed Dionysius the Areopagite there; who is thought by some to be the same here mentioned; who they say was first bishop in his own country, which through mistake they make to be Miletus, instead of Melita; and afterwards bishop of Athens, where he suffered martyrdom: but this is not likely, for even though he might be converted by the apostle, of which we have no account; and also became a preacher of the Gospel, of which there is no proof; it is not probable that he should leave his own country, and go to Athens, and take upon him the care of that church there: but whether he was afterwards converted or not, he was very kind to the apostle and the ship's company, as follows:

who received us, and lodged us three days courteously; this was a very considerable instance of humanity and hospitality, to receive so many strangers at once into his houses, as two hundred three score and sixteen; and give them food and lodging, for three days together, and that in such a kind, friendly, and cheerful manner: and thus, as Abraham and Lot, by receiving strangers, entertained angels at unawares, so Publius, though ignorant of it, entertained an apostle of Christ among those strangers; the benefit of which he afterwards enjoyed, and which was a compensation for his liberality and beneficence.

x Petav. Rationar. Temp. par. 1. l. 9. c. 11. & 12. p. 501, 507.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the same quarters - In that place, or that part of the island,

Possessions - Property. His place of residence.

The chief man - Greek: the first man. Probably he was the governor of the island,

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 28:7. The chief man of the island — The term πρωτος, CHIEF, used hereby St. Luke, was the ancient title of the governor of this island, as is evident from an inscription found in Malta, which runs thus:-

Λ. Κ. υἱος, κυρ. ἱππευς. ῥωμ. πρωτος Μελιταιων·

Lucius Caius, son of Quirinus, a Roman knight, CHIEF of the Melitese. See Bochart, Phaleg. and Chan. vol. i. chap. 498, &c., and Grotius. This title is another proof of the accuracy of St. Luke, who uses the very epithet by which the Roman governor of that island was distinguished.