Paul’s voyage to Rome

Through storm and shipwreck to Rome.

All journeys

Illustrated islands of Malta, Gozo, and Comino. No exact shipwreck site is marked.

GOZO Comino MEDITERRANEAN
SEA

05Malta Island context · landing site uncertain

Malta · island contextExact landing site is uncertain.

CHAPTER 05 OF 06

Artist’s reconstruction

On Malta

After the shipwreck · An unexpected welcome

The ship runs aground and breaks apart, but everyone reaches land safely. The survivors learn that the island is Malta. Its people welcome them with unusual kindness, lighting a fire because of the rain and cold.

Acts 27:39–28:10

Malta is named in Acts; the precise shipwreck and landing sites are not established here.

You might be wondering...

Did everyone survive the shipwreck?

Acts says that all reached land safely. Earlier it counted 276 people aboard the ship (Acts 27:37, 44).

How long did they stay on Malta?

They leave after three months on another Alexandrian ship that had wintered at the island (Acts 28:11).