Acts 28:3

Good News Translation

Paul gathered up a bundle of sticks and was putting them on the fire when a snake came out on account of the heat and fastened itself to his hand.

Cross References

Job 20:16

What the evil people swallow is like poison; it kills them like the bite of a deadly snake.

Isaiah 30:6

This is God's message about the animals of the southern desert: “The ambassadors travel through dangerous country, where lions live and where there are poisonous snakes and flying dragons. They load their donkeys and camels with expensive gifts for a nation that cannot give them any help.

Isaiah 41:24

You and all you do are nothing; those who worship you are disgusting!

Isaiah 59:5

The evil plots you make are as deadly as the eggs of a poisonous snake. Crush an egg, out comes a snake! But your plots will do you no good—they are as useless as clothing made of cobwebs!

Amos 5:19

It will be like someone who runs from a lion and meets a bear! Or like someone who comes home and puts his hand on the wall—only to be bitten by a snake!

Matthew 12:34

You snakes—how can you say good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Matthew 23:33

You snakes and children of snakes! How do you expect to escape from being condemned to hell?

Matthew 3:7

When John saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to him to be baptized, he said to them, “You snakes—who told you that you could escape from the punishment God is about to send?

Mark 16:18

if they pick up snakes or drink any poison, they will not be harmed; they will place their hands on sick people, and these will get well.”

Acts 28:2

The natives there were very friendly to us. It had started to rain and was cold, so they built a fire and made us all welcome.

Acts 28:4

The natives saw the snake hanging on Paul's hand and said to one another, “This man must be a murderer, but Fate will not let him live, even though he escaped from the sea.”

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they Christ's servants? I sound like a madman—but I am a better servant than they are! I have worked much harder, I have been in prison more times, I have been whipped much more, and I have been near death more often.

2 Corinthians 6:9

as unknown, yet we are known by all; as though we were dead, but, as you see, we live on. Although punished, we are not killed;