The natives showed us extraordinary kindness, for they kindled a fire and took us all in because of the rain that had started and because of the cold.
Parallel translations
- WEB The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire, and received us all, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
- KJV 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.
- BSB The islanders showed us extraordinary kindness. They kindled a fire and welcomed all of us because it was raining and cold.
- NKJV And the natives showed us unusual kindness; for they kindled a fire and made us all welcome, because of the rain that was falling and because of the cold.
- NLT The people of the island were very kind to us. It was cold and rainy, so they built a fire on the shore to welcome us.
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The Maltese natives show unusual kindness, building a fire to welcome the cold, rain-soaked survivors.
Overview
The islanders, called 'barbarians' for not speaking Greek, extend remarkable hospitality to the shipwrecked company. Their compassion reflects God's common grace at work even among pagans and His provision for His servants. The warm welcome embodies the practical love that the gospel later commends and that God uses to care for Paul and his companions.
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- Heb 13:2Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
- Col 3:11where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
- Rom 1:14I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.
- 2 Cor 11:27in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
- Acts 28:4When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”
- 1 Cor 14:11If then I don’t know the meaning of the sound, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me.
- Prov 24:11–12Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!
- Matt 10:42Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”
- Lev 19:34The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
- Acts 27:3The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.
- Rom 2:14–15(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,
- Rom 2:27Won’t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?
- Lev 19:18“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
- Luke 10:30–37Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
- John 18:18Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a fire of coals, for it was cold. They were warming themselves. Peter was with them, standing and warming himself.
- Ezra 10:9Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the wide place in front of God’s house, trembling because of this matter, and because of the great rain.
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