Places of the Bible
Crete
Island · island
What happened here
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.
- Journey to Rome begins · 56 AD
- Paul's Journey to Rome · 56 AD
- Paul is shipwrecked by a storm · 57 AD
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Now called Candia, one of the largest islands in the Meditterranean, about 140 miles long and 35 broad. It was at one time a very prosperous and populous island, having a “hundred cities.” The character of the people is described in Paul’s quotation from “one of their own poets” (Epimenides) in his epistle to Titus: “The Cretans are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies” (Titus 1:12). Jews from Crete were in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:11). The island was visited by Paul on his voyage to Rome (Acts 27). Here Paul subsequently left Titus (1:5) “to ordain elders.” Some have supposed that it was the original home of the Caphtorim (q.v.) or Philistines.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 5 verses
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.