Acts 28 · Verse 10

Acts 28:10

Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.
Acts 28:10, King James Version

Acts 28:10 in other translations

BSBThe islanders honored us in many ways and supplied our needs when we were ready to sail.
WEBThey also honored us with many honors; and when we sailed, they put on board the things that we needed.
ASVwho also honored us with many honors; and when we sailed, they put on board such things as we needed.
YLTwho also with many honours did honour us, and we setting sail--they were lading us with the things that were necessary.
DARBYwho also honoured us with many honours, and on our leaving they made presents to us of what should minister to our wants.
BBEThen they gave us great honour, and, when we went away, they put into the ship whatever things we were in need of.
WebsterWho also honored us with many honors; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.

What does Acts 28:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
10. who also honoured us ... and when we departed they laded us, &c.--This was not taking hire for the miracles wrought among them (Mt 10:8), but such grateful expressions of feeling, particularly in providing what would minister to their comfort during the voyage, as showed the value they set upon the presence and labors of the apostle among them, and such as it would have hurt their feelings to refuse. Whether any permanent effects of this three months' stay of the greatest of the apostles were left at Malta, we cannot certainly say. But though little dependence is to be placed upon the tradition that Publius became bishop of Malta and afterwards of Athens, we may well believe the accredited tradition that the beginnings of the Christian Church at Malta sprang out of this memorable visit.

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Barnes' Notes
Verse 10. Who also honoured us. As men who were favoured of heaven, and who had been the means of conferring important benefits on them in healing the sick, etc. Probably the word "honours" here means gifts, or marks of favour.

They laded us. They gave us, or conferred on us. They furnished us with such things as were necessary for us on our journey.

(c) "honoured us" 1Thes 2:6, 1Timm 5:17

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 10 Honoured us with many honors - The word τιμη, as Bishop Pearce has remarked, is often used to signify a pecuniary recompense, or present. The Greek word seems to be thus used in 1Tim 5:17. Let the elders which rule well be accounted worthy of double Honor, τιμης, which St. Chrysostom, on the place, explains thus: την των αναγκαιων χορηγιαν· a supplying them with all necessary things. Diodorus Siculus, and Xenophon, used the word in the same way. In the sense of a pecuniary recompense, or price, paid for any thing, the word τιμη is met with in 1Cor 6:20; and 1Cor 7:23. And in the Septuagint, Num 22:17; compared with Num 22:18; Psa 8:5; and Psa 49:12; Pro 3:9. Bp. Pearce. Such things as were necessary - They had before given them many presents, and now they gave them a good sea stock; all that was necessary for their passage.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Acts 28:1-10

God can make strangers to be friends; friends in distress. Those who are despised for homely manners, are often more friendly than the more polished; and the conduct of heathens, or persons called barbarians, condemns many in civilized nations, professing to be Christians. The people thought that Paul was a murderer, and that the viper was sent by Divine justice, to be the avenger of blood. They knew that there is a…

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Acts 28:10 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

οἳhoiwhoG3739
καὶkaialsoG2532
πολλαῖςpollaiswith manyG4183
τιμαῖςtimaishonorsG5092
ἐτίμησανetimēsanhonoredG5091
ἡμᾶς,hēmasus,G3165
καὶkaiandG2532
ἀναγομένοιςanagomenoison setting sailG321
ἐπέθεντοepethentothey laid on [us]G2007
τὰtathe [things]G3588
πρὸςprosforG4314
τὰςtastheG3588
χρείας.¶chreiasneeds.G5532

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Acts 28:10

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:6

    Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

  • Matthew 6:31-34

    Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

  • Philippians 4:19

    But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

  • Philippians 4:11-12

    Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

  • Ezra 7:27

    Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem:

  • Matthew 10:8-10

    Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.

  • 2 Kings 8:9

    So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben–hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?

  • 1 Timothy 5:3-4

    Honour widows that are widows indeed. But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

  • 2 Corinthians 9:5-11

    Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness. But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work: …

  • 1 Timothy 5:17-18

    Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.

  • Matthew 15:5-6

    But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

  • 2 Corinthians 8:2-6

    How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves; Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
honoured.
Mt 15:5,6; 1Th 2:6; 1Ti 5:3,4,17,18
laded.
2Ki 8:9; Ezr 7:27; Mt 6:31-34; 10:8-10; 2Co 8:2-6; 9:5-11
Php 4:11,12,19

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Context

  • Acts 28:9

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

  • Acts 28:10

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

  • Acts 28:11

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

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Acts 28:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Los cuales también nos honraron con muchos obsequios; y cuando partimos, nos cargaron de las cosas necesarias.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et ceux-ci nous firent aussi de grands honneurs, et à notre départ nous fournirent ce qui nous était nécessaire.
German
Elberfelder 1871
diese ehrten uns auch mit vielen Ehren, und als wir abfuhren, luden sie uns auf, was uns nötig war.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
qui etiam multis honoribus nos honoraverunt, et navigantibus imposuerunt quæ necessaria erant.