Verse 6 But they were expecting that he was going to swell up or suddenly drop dead. The healing on Publius's sick father (verse 8) recalls Jesus' healing of Peter's mother-in-law, and as in the gospels, prompting other islanders to come for healing (verse 9), indicating that 'God whom Paul serves (Acts 27:23) is still with him' and that 'the whole shipwreck incident has served to load him with honor' (verse 10). The castaways were brought to a local landowner with the common Roman praenomen, Publius (verse 7), whose Maltese title as 'first man' is attested from ancient inscriptions found in the island. Term for non-Greek speakers, because they originally came from Carthage and their native language was Punic. The inhabitants of the island are called barbaroi in Greek (verse 2), the standard ![]() ![]() This chapter mentions or alludes to the following places (in order of appearance): Class=notpageimage| Places mentioned in (blue) and related to (black) this chapter.
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