Acts 28:3

Webster's Bible (1833)

But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand.

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  • Job 20:16 : 16 He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.
  • Isa 30:6 : 6 The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit [them].
  • Isa 41:24 : 24 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing; an abomination is he who chooses you.
  • Isa 59:5 : 5 They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
  • Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
  • Matt 12:34 : 34 You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
  • Matt 23:33 : 33 You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?
  • Acts 28:4 : 4 When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, "No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live."
  • 2 Cor 6:9 : 9 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;
  • 2 Cor 11:23 : 23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
  • Amos 5:19 : 19 As if a man fled from a lion, And a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, And a snake bit him.

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  • Acts 28:4-9
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    4When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, "No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live."

    5However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn't harmed.

    6But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.

    7Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us, and courteously entertained us for three days.

    8It happened that the father of Publius lay sick of fever and dysentery. Paul entered in to him, prayed, and laying his hands on him, healed him.

    9Then when this was done, the rest also who had diseases in the island came, and were cured.

  • Acts 28:1-2
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    1When we had escaped, then they{NU reads "we"} learned that the island was called Malta.

    2The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire, and received us all, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.

  • Amos 5:19
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    19As if a man fled from a lion, And a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, And a snake bit him.

  • Num 15:32-33
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    32While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.

    33Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.

  • Acts 19:11-12
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    11God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul,

    12so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the evil spirits went out.

  • Acts 14:19
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    19But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

  • Num 21:8-9
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    8Yahweh said to Moses, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.

    9Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.

  • Num 21:6
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    6Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

  • Job 20:16
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    16He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.

  • Acts 21:29-30
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    29For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

    30All the city was moved, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.

  • Mark 16:18
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    18they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."

  • Acts 21:27
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    27When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,

  • Acts 21:11
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    11Coming to us, and taking Paul's belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit: 'So will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"

  • Exod 4:3-4
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    3He said, "Throw it on the ground." He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.

    4Yahweh said to Moses, "Put forth your hand, and take it by the tail." He put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.

  • Acts 27:32
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    32Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let it fall off.

  • Acts 28:15
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    15From there the brothers, when they heard of us, came to meet us as far as The Market of Appius and The Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God, and took courage.

  • Prov 23:32
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    32In the end, it bites like a snake, And poisons like a viper.

  • Acts 21:32-33
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    32Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.

    33Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.

  • Acts 16:29
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    29He called for lights and sprang in, and, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,

  • Acts 27:19
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    19On the third day, they threw out the ship's tackle with their own hands.

  • Acts 27:30
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    30As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,

  • Acts 27:43-44
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    43But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;

    44and the rest should follow, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. So it happened that they all escaped safely to the land.

  • 2 Cor 11:33
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    33Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.

  • Acts 27:17
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    17After they had hoisted it up, they used cables to help reinforce the ship. Fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis sand bars, they lowered the sea anchor, and so were driven along.

  • Jer 8:17
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    17For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh.

  • Acts 14:10-11
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    10said with a loud voice, "Stand upright on your feet!" He leaped up and walked.

    11When the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, "The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!"

  • Acts 26:21
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    21For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.

  • Acts 27:41
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    41But coming to a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground. The bow struck and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves.

  • Acts 13:11
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    11Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!" Immediately there fell on him a mist and darkness. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

  • Acts 21:3
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    3When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, we sailed to Syria, and landed at Tyre, for there the ship was to unload her cargo.

  • Acts 16:19
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    19But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.

  • Acts 19:16
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    16The man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

  • 1 Cor 10:9
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    9Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

  • Acts 13:8
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    8But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn aside the proconsul from the faith.

  • Acts 23:10
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    10When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

  • Acts 27:21
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    21When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle of them, and said, "Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, and have gotten this injury and loss.