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Acts 28

Acts 28 ( Acts • Chapter 28 (31 verses)): And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita. And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold. And when Paul had gathered a bundle of st... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Yeshua the Messiah , Moses , Alexandria , Syracuse , Rhegium , Puteoli , Rome . Within the broader Biblical Knowledge Graph, this connects directly to Early Church, Acts & Pauline Epistles—Following the ascension of Yeshua and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost in Acts 1 –2, the apostolic community spread from Jerusalem and Judea to Samaria , Antioch , Corinth , Ephesus , and Rome , documented across Acts and the twenty-one New Testament Epistles.

Biblical Geography & Sacred Architecture

Key geographical locations connected to this topic include Rome (Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 2:10 , Acts 18:2 , Acts 19:21 , Acts 23:11 , Acts 28:14 , Acts 28:16 .) Alexandria (Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 18:24 , Acts 27:6 , Acts 28:11 .) Forum of Appius (http://gnswww.nga.mil/geonames/Gazetteer/Search/Results.jsp?Feature__Unique_Feature_ID=-117178&Diacritics=Yes&reload=1. Referenced in Acts 28:15 .) Malta (Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 28:1 .)

Scripture Witness (KJV) & Canonical Context

Primary KJV scripture witnesses include Acts 28:12 : "And landing at Syracuse , we tarried there three days."; Acts 9:28 : "And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem ."; Acts 28:24 : "And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not.". Related canonical books and chapters: Acts 28 ( Acts • Chapter 28 (31 verses)), Acts (New Testament • 28 Chapters), Acts 1 (Acts • Chapter 1 (26 verses)).

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Topics, People & Places (36)

Acts 28
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Acts • Chapter 28 (31 verses)

And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita. And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold. And when Paul had gathered a bundle of st... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Yeshua the Messiah , Moses , Alexandria , Syracuse , Rhegium , Puteoli , Rome .

Acts
99% New Testament
New Testament • 28 Chapters

Acts (New Testament, 28 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah , Jacob/Israel , James ( Jacob ), Simon , Judas , Mary . Key places: Jerusalem , Samaria , Galilee , Olivet , Mesopotamia , Cappadocia . Opens with: "The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,..."

Map of Paul's Voyage to Rome (Acts 27–28)
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Sea voyage from Caesarea through Sidon , Myra , Fair Havens ( Crete ), shipwreck at Malta , and arrival in Rome .

Townsend MacCoun (1899) • The Holy Land in Geography and in History / Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0
Wiki Article • New Testament & Messiah

Following the ascension of Yeshua and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost in Acts 1 –2, the apostolic community spread from Jerusalem and Judea to Samaria , Antioch , Corinth , Ephesus , and Rome , documented across Acts and the twenty-one New Testament Epistles.

Acts 21:28
99% Verse
Acts Chapter 21, Verse 28

Scripture passage in Acts 21:28

Code of Hammurabi Stele — Babylonian Law & Mosaic Parallels
IMAGE • archaeology

Diorite stele in the Louvre Museum with 282 legal statutes illustrating Ancient Near Eastern covenantal jurisprudence.

Ancient Near Eastern Scribes and Stonemasons • The British Museum / Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0
Temple Warning Inscription — Greek Soreg Warning to Gentiles
IMAGE • archaeology

Limestone slab warning non-Jews on pain of death not to enter past the balustrade (soreg) into the inner Temple courts ( Acts 21:28 ).

Ancient Near Eastern Scribes and Stonemasons • The British Museum / Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0
Rome
82% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 41.900°N, 12.483°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 2:10 , Acts 18:2 , Acts 19:21 , Acts 23:11 , Acts 28:14 , Acts 28:16 .

Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III — King Jehu of Israel
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Neo-Assyrian bas-relief (825 BCE) showing King Jehu bowing before the Assyrian monarch, the only contemporary depiction of an Israelite king.

Ancient Near Eastern Scribes and Stonemasons • The British Museum / Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0
Behistun Inscription — Darius the Great Trilingual Relief
IMAGE • archaeology

Colossal rock relief in Iran carved in Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian, key to deciphering cuneiform and Persian royal decrees in Ezra .

Achaemenid Persian Stonemasons (Darius the Great) • UNESCO World Heritage Site, Bisotun CC-BY-SA 4.0
Seal of King Hezekiah — Royal Bulla from Ophel Excavations
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Impression of the royal signet ring of King Hezekiah featuring a two-winged sun disk and ankh symbols.

Chancery of King Hezekiah • Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0
Nazareth Inscription — Imperial Edict on Grave Robbery
IMAGE • archaeology

Marble slab inscribed with an imperial ordinance imposing capital punishment on tomb violators, found in Nazareth .

Roman Imperial Chancellery • Cabinet des Médailles, Bibliothèque nationale de France CC-BY-SA 4.0
Megiddo Ivory Plaque — Canaanite Royal Court Life
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Carved hippopotamus ivory plaque showing an enthroned ruler receiving tribute and drinking from a lotus chalice.

Ancient Near Eastern Scribes and Stonemasons • The British Museum / Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0
Tel Dan High Place — Sacred Precinct of Jeroboam's Golden Calf
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Monumental stone podium and horned altar enclosure established by Jeroboam I at Dan to rival Jerusalem .

Northern Kingdom of Israel Stone Builders • Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0
Alexandria
77% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 31.228°N, 29.957°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 18:24 , Acts 27:6 , Acts 28:11 .

Forum of Appius
75% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 41.469°N, 12.994°E

http://gnswww.nga.mil/geonames/Gazetteer/Search/Results.jsp?Feature__Unique_Feature_ID=-117178&Diacritics=Yes&reload=1. Referenced in Acts 28:15 .

Malta
74% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 35.853°N, 14.532°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 28:1 .

Ruach Elohim, Pneuma Hagion, Patristic Pneumatology, and the Filioque Debate

Biblical-primary certainty on the full deity and distinct personhood of the Holy Spirit ( Matt 28:19 , Acts 5:3-4 , 1 Cor 2:10-11 ). The historical debate regarding the Filioque ('and the Son') between Western and Eastern branches of the Church is cataloged under scholarly-debate.

Haran
74% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 36.864°N, 39.032°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Gen 11:31 , Gen 11:32 , Gen 12:4 , Gen 12:5 , Gen 27:43 , Gen 28:10 .

Puteoli
74% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 40.836°N, 14.268°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 28:13 .

Daniel 12, Second Temple Sectarian Views, The Bema Seat, and The Great White Throne

Direct biblical certainty on the bodily resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous ( Dan 12:2 , John 5:28-29 , Acts 24:15 ) and universal divine judgment according to truth ( Rom 2:5-11 , Rev 20:11-15 ). Theories on the intermediate state (conscious rest/torment vs soul sleep vs purgatorial cleansing) represent scholarly debate.

The Munus Triplex in Old Testament Anointing Types and New Testament Consummation

Explicitly rooted in Old Testament anointing types and New Testament fulfillment (Munus Triplex): Prophet like Moses ( Deut 18:15 , Acts 3:22 ), Great High Priest after Melchizedek ( Ps 110:4 , Heb 7:1-28 ), and Davidic King ( 2 Sam 7:12-16 , Luke 1:32-33 , Rev 19:16 ).

Rhegium
74% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 38.112°N, 15.643°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 28:13 .

Biblical Monotheism, Trinitarian Economy, and Patristic Triadology

Explicit biblical teaching affirms monotheism ( Deut 6:4 , Isa 45:5 ) alongside three distinct, co-eternal Persons sharing the single divine essence ( Matt 28:19 , 2 Cor 13:14 , John 1:1 , John 10:30 , Acts 5:3-4 ). Patristic triadology clarified terminology against Arian and modalistic heresies.

Syracuse
74% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 37.068°N, 15.295°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 28:12 .

Three Taverns
74% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 41.591°N, 12.829°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 28:15 .

ἀνομία
anomia (anomía) [an-om-ee'-ah]
G0458 Greek noun feminine 15x
lawlessness, iniquity

Primary meaning: lawlessness, iniquity. Strong's: illegality, i.e. violation of law or (genitive case) wickedness. Lexical nuances: lawlessness , iniquity : Mt 7:23 13:41 23:28 24:12 , Ro 6:19 , II Co 6:14 , II Th 2:3 , 7 , Tit 2:14 , He 1:9 , I Jo 3:4 ; in pl. (as LXX, Ps 31:1 , al.; v. Bl., § 32, 6; Swete, Mk. , 153), of acts or manifestations of lawlessness: Ro 4:7 (LXX) , He 10:17 .†

Derivation: from G459 (ἄνομος);
Philippi
67% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 41.012°N, 24.286°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 16:12 , Acts 20:6 , Phil 1:1 , 1 Thes 2:2 .

Ptolemais
64% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Acco • 32.928°N, 35.082°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 21:7 (identified with Acco ).

Rhodes
64% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 36.442°N, 28.227°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 21:1 .

Acts 1
52% Chapter
Acts • Chapter 1 (26 verses)

The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: To whom also he shewed himself alive after his pa... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , Jacob/Israel , James ( Jacob ), Simon , Judas , Jerusalem , Samaria , Galilee , Olivet .

Acts 2
51% Chapter
Acts • Chapter 2 (47 verses)

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and... Mentions: Joel , Jacob/Israel , Yeshua the Messiah , David , Jerusalem , Mesopotamia , Cappadocia , Pontus , Asia .

Codex Alexandrinus (A, 02) — Acts of the Apostles 1
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Uncial folio depicting Christ 's ascension and the waiting apostles in Jerusalem .

Qumran Essene Scribes / Early Christian Copyists • Shrine of the Book / Israel Antiquities Authority Public Domain Mark 1.0
Taylor Prism (Sennacherib's Annals) — Siege of Jerusalem
IMAGE • archaeology

Hexagonal baked clay prism in the British Museum recording Sennacherib's campaign against Hezekiah : 'I shut him up like a caged bird'.

Ancient Near Eastern Scribes and Stonemasons • The British Museum / Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0
Lachish Reliefs — Assyrian Assault on Judahite Fortress
IMAGE • archaeology

Stone wall relief from Sennacherib's Southwest Palace at Nineveh depicting the siege, battering rams, and deportation of Lachish (701 BCE).

Ancient Near Eastern Scribes and Stonemasons • The British Museum / Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0
Merneptah Stele (Israel Stele) — Earliest Extra-Biblical Israel Mention
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Egyptian hieroglyphic victory poem from 1208 BCE preserving the earliest historical inscription naming ' Israel ' as a people in Canaan .

Ancient Near Eastern Scribes and Stonemasons • The British Museum / Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0

Scripture Passages (24)

Acts 28:12 (KJV)
Acts 28 KJV

And landing at Syracuse , we tarried there three days.

And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem .

Acts 28:24 (KJV)
Acts 28 KJV

And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not.

Acts 28:28 (KJV)
Acts 28 KJV

Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.

Acts 28:5 (KJV)
Acts 28 KJV

And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.

Acts 28:1 (KJV)
Acts 28 KJV

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

Acts 28:29 (KJV)
Acts 28 KJV

And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves.

Acts 28:9 (KJV)
Acts 28 KJV

So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed:

Acts 13:28 (KJV)
Acts 13 KJV

And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.

Acts 28:14 (KJV)
Acts 28 KJV

Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome .

Acts 28:30 (KJV)
Acts 28 KJV

And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,

Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.

Acts 28:10 (KJV)
Acts 28 KJV

Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.

Acts 28:18 (KJV)
Acts 28 KJV

Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.

And there they abode long time with the disciples.

Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?

Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.

Acts 28:31 (KJV)
Acts 28 KJV

Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ , with all confidence, no man forbidding him.

Acts 28:11 (KJV)
Acts 28 KJV

And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria , which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.

Acts 28:26 (KJV)
Acts 28 KJV

Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:

Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.

Acts 28:19 (KJV)
Acts 28 KJV

But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.

Acts 28:22 (KJV)
Acts 28 KJV

But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.

For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

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