Acts 28:4

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer. Though he has escaped from the sea, justice has not allowed him to live.”

Cross References

Genesis 3:1

Now the serpent was more subtle than any other wild creature that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

Proverbs 28:17

If a man is burdened with the blood of another, let him be a fugitive until death; let no one help him.

Isaiah 26:21

For behold, the Lord is coming forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed upon her, and will no more cover her slain.

Isaiah 43:20

The wild beasts will honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my chosen people,

Zephaniah 2:15

This is the exultant city that dwelt secure, that said to herself, “I am and there is none else.” What a desolation she has become, a lair for wild beasts! Every one who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

Matthew 23:35

that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

Matthew 27:25

And all the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

Luke 13:2

And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered thus?

Luke 13:4

Or those eighteen upon whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who dwelt in Jerusalem?

John 7:24

Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”

Acts 28:2

And the natives showed us unusual kindness, for they kindled a fire and welcomed us all, because it had begun to rain and was cold.

Acts 28:3

Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and put them on the fire, when a viper came out because of the heat and fastened on his hand.

Acts 28:5

He, however, shook off the creature into the fire and suffered no harm.

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”