Acts 28:6

Geneva Bible (1560)

Howbeit they wayted whe he should haue swolne, or fallen downe dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and sawe no inconuenience come to him, they changed their mindes, and said, That he was a God.

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  • Matt 21:9 : 9 Moreouer, the people that went before, and they also that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Sonne of Dauid, Blessed be hee that commeth in the Name of the Lorde, Hosanna thou which art in the highest heauens.
  • Matt 27:22 : 22 Pilate said vnto them, What shal I do then with Iesus, which is called Christ? They all said to him, Let him be crucified.
  • Acts 12:22 : 22 And the people gaue a shoute, saying, The voyce of God, and not of man.
  • Acts 14:11-13 : 11 Then when the people sawe what Paul had done, they lift vp their voyces, saying in ye speach of Lycaonia, Gods are come downe to vs in the likenesse of men. 12 And they called Barnabas, Iupiter: and Paul, Mercurius, because hee was the chiefe speaker. 13 Then Iupiters priest, which was before their citie, brought bulles with garlands vnto the gates, & would haue sacrificed with the people.

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  • Acts 28:1-5
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    1And when they were come safe, then they knewe that the Yle was called Melita.

    2And the Barbarians shewed vs no litle kindnesse: for they kindled a fire, and receiued vs euery one, because of the present showre, and because of the colde.

    3And when Paul had gathered a nomber of stickes, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heate, and leapt on his hand.

    4Nowe when ye Barbarians saw the worme hang on his hand, they said among themselues, This man surely is a murtherer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet Vengeance hath not suffered to liue.

    5But he shooke off the worme into the fire, and felt no harme.

  • Acts 28:7-11
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    7In the same quarters, the chiefe man of the Yle (whose name was Publius) had possessions: the same receiued vs, and lodged vs three dayes courteously.

    8And so it was, that the father of Publius lay sicke of the feauer, and of a bloodie flixe: to whom Paul entred in, and when he prayed, he laide his hands on him, and healed him.

    9When this then was done, other also in the Yle, which had diseases, came to him, and were healed,

    10Which also did vs great honour: and when we departed, they laded vs with things necessarie.

    11Nowe after three moneths we departed in a shippe of Alexandria, which had wintred in the Yle, whose badge was Castor and Pollux.

  • Acts 14:9-12
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    9He heard Paul speake: who beholding him, and perceiuing that he had faith to be healed,

    10Said with a loude voyce, Stand vpright on thy feete; he leaped vp, and walked.

    11Then when the people sawe what Paul had done, they lift vp their voyces, saying in ye speach of Lycaonia, Gods are come downe to vs in the likenesse of men.

    12And they called Barnabas, Iupiter: and Paul, Mercurius, because hee was the chiefe speaker.

  • Acts 27:24-27
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    24Saying, Feare not, Paul: for thou must be brought before Cesar: and lo, God hath giuen vnto thee freely all that sayle with thee.

    25Wherefore, sirs, be of good courage: for I beleeue God, that it shall be so as it hath bene tolde me.

    26Howbeit, we must be cast into a certaine Iland.

    27And when ye fourteenth night was come, as we were caried to and fro in the Adriaticall sea about midnight, the shipmen deemed that some countrey approched vnto them,

  • Acts 27:20-21
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    20And when neither sunne nor starres in many dayes appeared, and no small tempest lay vpon vs, all hope that we should be saued, was then taken away.

    21But after long abstinece, Paul stood forth in the mids of them, and said, Syrs, ye should haue hearkened to me, and not haue loosed from Candie: so should ye haue gained this hurt and losse.

  • Acts 8:10-11
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    10To whome they gaue heede from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is that great power of God.

    11And they gaue heed vnto him, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.

  • Acts 28:18
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    18Who when they had examined me, would haue let me goe, because there was no cause of death in me.

  • Acts 13:12
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    12Then the Deputie when he sawe what was done, beleeued, and was astonied at the doctrine of the Lord.

  • Acts 12:22-23
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    22And the people gaue a shoute, saying, The voyce of God, and not of man.

    23But immediatly the Angel of the Lorde smote him, because he gaue not glorie vnto God, so that he was eaten of wormes, and gaue vp the ghost.

  • Acts 27:10-11
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    10And sayde vnto them, Syrs, I see that this voiage will be with hurt & much damage, not of the lading and ship onely, but also of our liues.

    11Neuertheles the Centurion beleeued rather the gouernour and the master of the ship, then those things which were spoken of Paul.

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    26And they were all amased, & praysed God, and were filled with feare, saying, Doutlesse we haue seene strange things to day.

  • Acts 4:21
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    21So they threatened them, and let them goe, and found nothing how to punish them, because of the people: for all men praised God for that which was done.

  • Acts 26:30-31
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    30And when he had thus spoken, the King rose vp, and the gouernour, and Bernice, and they that sate with them.

    31And when they were gone apart, they talked betweene themselues, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death, nor of bonds.

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    43But the Centurion willing to saue Paul, stayed them from this counsell, and commaunded that they that coulde swimme, shoulde cast them selues first into the sea, and goe out to land:

    44And the other, some on boardes, and some on certaine pieces of the ship: and so it came to passe that they came all safe to land.

  • Acts 13:7
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    7Which was with the Deputie Sergius Paulus, a prudent man. He called vnto him Barnabas and Saul, and desired to heare the woorde of God.

  • Acts 22:22
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    22And they heard him vnto this worde, but then they lift vp their voyces, and sayd, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not meete that he should liue.

  • Acts 14:18-19
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    18And speaking these things, scarce appeased they the multitude, that they had not sacrificed vnto them.

    19Then there came certaine Iewes from Antiochia and Iconium, which when they had persuaded the people, stoned Paul, and drewe him out of the citie, supposing he had bene dead.

  • Acts 14:15
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    15And saying, O men, why doe yee these things? We are euen men subiect to the like passions that yee be, and preache vnto you, that yee shoulde turne from these vaine things vnto the liuing God, which made heauen and earth, and the sea, and all things that in them are:

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    39And when it was day, they knewe not the countrey, but they spied a certaine creeke with a banke, into the which they were minded (if it were possible) to thrust in the ship.

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    30But God raised him vp from the dead.

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    21Then they saide vnto him, We neither receiued letters out of Iudea concerning thee, neither came any of the brethren that shewed or spake any euill of thee.

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    10And they knewe him, that it was he which sate for the almes at the Beautifull gate of the Temple: and they were amased, and sore astonied at that, which was come vnto him.

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    13And when the Southerne winde blew softly, they supposing to atteine their purpose, loosed neerer, and sailed by Candie.

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    41And when they fell into a place, where two seas met, they thrust in the ship: and the forepart stucke fast, and could not be moued, but the hinderpart was broken with the violence of the waues.

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    12Then all the multitude kept silence, and heard Barnabas and Paul, which told what signes and wonders God had done among the Gentiles by them.

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    18Against whom when the accusers stood vp, they brought no crime of such things as I supposed:

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    29For they had seene before Trophimus an Ephesian with him in the citie, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the Temple.