Acts 28:4

New Century Version

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.”

Cross References

Genesis 3:1

Now the snake was the most clever of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day the snake said to the woman, “Did God really say that you must not eat fruit from any tree in the garden?”

Proverbs 28:17

Don’t help those who are guilty of murder; let them run until they die.

Isaiah 26:21

The Lord will leave his place to punish the people of the world for their sins. The earth will show the blood of the people who have been killed; it will not cover the dead any longer.

Isaiah 43:20

Even the wild animals will be thankful to me— the wild dogs and owls. They will honor me when I put water in the desert and rivers in the dry land to give water to my people, the ones I chose.

Zephaniah 2:15

This is the happy and safe city that thinks there is no one else as strong as it is. But what a ruin it will be, a place where wild animals live. All those who pass by will make fun and shake their fists.

Matthew 23:35

So you will be guilty for the death of all the good people who have been killed on earth—from the murder of that good man Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Berakiah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.

Matthew 27:25

All the people answered, “We and our children will be responsible for his death.”

Luke 13:2

Jesus answered, “Do you think this happened to them because they were more sinful than all others from Galilee?

Luke 13:4

What about those eighteen people who died when the tower of Siloam fell on them? Do you think they were more sinful than all the others who live in Jerusalem?

John 7:24

Stop judging by the way things look, but judge by what is really right.”

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 28:3

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.

Acts 28:5

But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and was not hurt.

Revelation 21:8

But cowards, those who refuse to believe, who do evil things, who kill, who sin sexually, who do evil magic, who worship idols, and who tell lies—all these will have a place in the lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”