Acts 28:3

New Century Version

Paul gathered a pile of sticks and was putting them on the fire when a poisonous snake came out because of the heat and bit him on the hand.

Cross References

Job 20:16

They will suck the poison of snakes, and the snake’s fangs will kill them.

Isaiah 30:6

This is a message about the animals in southern Judah: Southern Judah is a dangerous place full of lions and lionesses, poisonous snakes and darting snakes. The messengers travel through there with their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasure on the backs of camels. They carry them to a nation that cannot help them,

Isaiah 41:24

You gods are less than nothing; you can’t do anything. Those who worship you should be hated.

Isaiah 59:5

They hatch evil like eggs from poisonous snakes. If you eat one of those eggs, you will die, and if you break one open, a poisonous snake comes out. People tell lies as they would spin a spider’s web.

Amos 5:19

It will be like someone who runs from a lion and meets a bear, or like someone who goes into his house and puts his hand on the wall, and then is bitten by a snake.

Matthew 12:34

You snakes! You are evil people, so how can you say anything good? The mouth speaks the things that are in the heart.

Matthew 23:33

“You are snakes! A family of poisonous snakes! How are you going to escape God’s judgment?

Matthew 3:7

Many of the Pharisees and Sadducees came to the place where John was baptizing people. When John saw them, he said, “You are snakes! Who warned you to run away from God’s coming punishment?

Mark 16:18

They will pick up snakes and drink poison without being hurt. They will touch the sick, and the sick will be healed.”

Acts 28:2

The people who lived there were very good to us. Because it was raining and very cold, they made a fire and welcomed all of us.

Acts 28:4

The people living on the island saw the snake hanging from Paul’s hand and said to each other, “This man must be a murderer! He did not die in the sea, but Justice does not want him to live.”

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they serving Christ? I am serving him more. (I am crazy to talk like this.) I have worked much harder than they. I have been in prison more often. I have been hurt more in beatings. I have been near death many times.

2 Corinthians 6:9

We are not known, but we are well known. We seem to be dying, but we continue to live. We are punished, but we are not killed.