Acts 28:4

First Nations Version

When the local natives saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said, “This man must be a murderer. Even though he escaped from the great waters, the spirit who rights wrongs will not let him live.”

Cross References

Luke 13:4

“What about the eighteen people on whom the tower in Sending Village (Siloam) fell? Do you think they were worse than all others living in Village of Peace (Jerusalem)?

Luke 13:2

He said to them, “Do you think it was because of their bad hearts and wrongdoings that they suffered? Do you think their hearts were worse than all the others in Circle of Nations (Galilee)?

Acts 28:5

Then Small Man (Paul) shook the snake from his hand into the fire, and nothing bad happened to him.

Acts 28:2

The indigenous people there showed great kindness to us. It was raining and cold, so they built us a warm fire and welcomed us all.

John 7:24

Do not decide things by their outward appearance. Instead, make your decisions in a good way, looking beyond what you see with your eyes.”

Matthew 23:35

Then you will be guilty of shedding the innocent blood of all who have lived on the earth from His Breath Goes Up (Abel), who was killed by his brother, to Creator Will Remember (Zechariah), the son of He Will Be Blessed (Barachiah), who was put to death in the courtyard of the sacred lodge.

Revelation 21:8

“But the fearful, the untrustworthy, the doers of shameful things, those who murder, the sexually impure, the bad medicine people, the ones who pray to spirit-images, and all who speak lies, their place will be in the fiery lake of burning rocks. This is the second death.”

Matthew 27:25

“Let his blood be on us and on our descendants!” they answered him back.

Acts 28:3

Small Man (Paul) gathered a bundle of sticks and threw them on the fire, but the heat forced out a poisonous snake that bit into his hand and would not let go.