Where did Paul get shipwrecked?
On the voyage to Rome as a prisoner, Paul's ship was driven by a storm for two weeks and wrecked on the island the KJV calls Melita, most commonly identified as modern Malta. "And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita" (Acts 28:1). Every soul aboard, 276 of them, reached shore alive.
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Sailing from Caesarea toward Rome under guard, the ship was caught by a violent wind off Crete and driven helpless across the sea. After fourteen nights adrift "in Adria" (Acts 27:27) it ran aground and broke apart, yet "they escaped all safe to land" (27:44), all "two hundred threescore and sixteen souls" (27:37), as Paul had been told they would. "And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita" (28:1), the island most commonly identified as Malta. From there the journey went on by Syracuse (28:12) to Rome (28:16). Acts 27 to 28.
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