Acts 28:3

God's Word

Paul gathered a bundle of brushwood and put it on the fire. The heat forced a poisonous snake out of the brushwood. The snake bit Paul’s hand and wouldn’t let go.

Cross References

Job 20:16

The godless person sucks the poison of snakes. A viper’s fang kills him.

Isaiah 30:6

This is the divine revelation about the animals in the Negev. “My people travel through lands where they experience distress and hardship. Lions and lionesses live there. Vipers and poisonous snakes live there. They carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels to a nation that can’t help them.

Isaiah 41:24

You are nothing! You can’t do anything! Whoever chooses you is disgusting.

Isaiah 59:5

They hatch viper eggs and weave spiderwebs. Those who eat their eggs will die. When an egg is crushed, a poisonous snake is hatched.

Amos 5:19

It is like a person who flees from a lion only to be attacked by a bear. It is like a person who goes home and puts his hand on the wall only to be bitten by a snake.

Matthew 12:34

You poisonous snakes! How can you evil people say anything good? Your mouth says what comes from inside you.

Matthew 23:33

“You snakes! You poisonous snakes! How can you escape being condemned to hell?

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to be baptized, he said to them, “You poisonous snakes! Who showed you how to flee from God’s coming anger?

Mark 16:18

They will pick up snakes, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them. They will place their hands on the sick and cure them.”

Acts 28:2

The people who lived on the island were unusually kind to us. They made a fire and welcomed all of us around it because of the rain and the cold.

Acts 28:4

When the people who lived on the island saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, “This man must be a murderer! He may have escaped from the sea, but justice won’t let him live.”

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they Christ’s servants? It’s insane to say it, but I’m a far better one. I’ve done much more work, been in prison many more times, been beaten more severely, and have faced death more often.

2 Corinthians 6:9

as unknown although we are well-known, as dying although, as you see, we go on living. We are punished, but we are not killed.