Acts 28:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ But Sha’ul, having gathered a bundle of sticks, and having laid them on the fire, an adder came out because of the heat, and fastened itself on his hand.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Now Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and he was laying them on the fire when a viper crawled out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out by reason of the heat, and fastened on his hand.

Common English Bible

³ Paul gathered a bunch of dry sticks and put them on the fire. As he did, a poisonous snake, driven out by the heat, latched on to his hand.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ But when Paul had gathered together a bundle of twigs, and had placed them on the fire, a viper, which had been drawn to the heat, fastened itself to his hand.

Acts 28:3 Cross References

Job 20:16

He sucks the poison of cobras; the tongue of the poisonous snake slays him.

Isaiah 30:6

The message concerning the beasts of the South. Through a land of trouble and distress, from which came the lioness and lion, the adder and fiery flying serpent, they convey their riches on the backs of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people,

Isaiah 41:24

“See, you are of naught, and your work a breath; he who chooses you is an abomination.

Isaiah 59:5

They have hatched adders’ eggs and they weave the spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs dies, and when one is broken an adder is hatched.

Amos 5:19

as when a man flees from a lion, and a bear shall meet him; or entered his house, rested his hand on the wall, and a serpent shall bite him.

Matthew 12:34

“Brood of adders! How are you able to speak what is good – being wicked? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

Matthew 23:33

“Serpents, brood of adders! How would you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

Matthew 3:7

And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, “Brood of adders! Who has warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Mark 16:18

they shall take up snakes, and if they drink any deadly drink it shall by no means hurt them, they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall get well.”

Acts 28:2

And the foreigners showed us extraordinary kindness, for they kindled a fire and received us all, because of the rain that was falling and because of the cold.

Acts 28:4

And when the foreigners saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to each other, “This man is certainly a murderer, whom, though saved from the sea, still right-ruling does not allow to live.”

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they servants of Messiah? – I speak as beside myself – I am more, in labours much more, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times.

2 Corinthians 6:9

as unknown, and yet well-known; as dying, and see, we live; as disciplined, and yet not killed;