Acts 28:3-5

New Catholic Bible

³ Paul had gathered an armful of sticks and put them on the fire when a viper, driven out by the heat, attached itself to his hand. ⁴ On seeing the snake hanging from his hand, the natives said to one another, “This man must be a murderer. Although he escaped from the sea, Justice^[a] has not allowed him to live.”

⁵ However, he shook off the snake into the fire and suffered no harm.