'Island' in the Bible
When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a magician, a Jewish false prophet whose name was Bar-Jesus,
Running under the shelter of a small island called Clauda, we were scarcely able to get the ship’s boat under control.
When they had been brought safely through, then we found out that the island was called Malta.
Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the leading man of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us courteously three days.
After this had happened, the rest of the people on the island who had diseases were coming to him and getting cured.
At the end of three months we set sail on an Alexandrian ship which had wintered at the island, and which had the Twin Brothers for its figurehead.