Others also, which had diseases.—More accurately, the others who had infirmities. The Greek gives the article, and states…

In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteou…

Though Paul spent three months (cf. v.11) on Malta, Luke gives us only one more incident from his stay there—the healing of Publius’s father. This …

So when this was done
This miracle was wrought, and the fame of it spread over the island:

God can make strangers into friends—friends in distre .