[a]And when Paul had gathered a number of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and leaped on his hand.

[b]Now when the Barbarians saw the worm hang on his hand, they said among themselves, This man surely is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet [c]Vengeance hath not suffered to live.

But he shook off the worm into the fire, and felt no harm.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 28:3 The godly are sure to have danger upon danger, but they have always a glorious issue.
  2. Acts 28:4 Although adversity be the punishment of sin, yet seeing that God in punishing of men doth not always respect sin, they judge rashly, which either do not wait for the end, or do judge and esteem of men according to prosperity or adversity.
  3. Acts 28:4 Right and reason.

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