Acts 28:4

The Passion Translation

When the islanders saw the snake dangling from Paul’s hand, they said to one another, “No doubt about it, this guy is a murderer. Even though he escaped death at sea, Justice has now caught up with him!”

Cross References

Genesis 3:1

Now the snake was the most cunning of all living beings that Yahweh-God had made. He deviously asked the woman, “Did God really tell you, ‘You must not eat fruit from any tree of the garden—?’ ”

Proverbs 28:17

A murderer’s conscience will torment him— a fugitive haunted by guilt all the way to the grave with no one to support him.

Isaiah 26:21

For the Lord is coming out from his heavenly place to punish people for their sins. The earth itself will expose the blood spilled upon it, and the ground will no longer hide its slain.

Isaiah 43:20

Wild beasts, jackals, and owls will glorify me. For I supply streams of water in the desert and rivers in the wilderness to satisfy the thirst of my people, my chosen ones,

Matthew 23:35

As your penalty, you will be held responsible for the righteous blood spilled and the murders of every godly person throughout your history—from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Jehoiada, whom you killed as he stood in the temple between the brazen altar and the Holy Place.

Matthew 27:25

And the crowd replied, “Let his blood be on us and on our children!”

Luke 13:2

Jesus turned and asked them, “Do you believe that the slaughtered Galileans were the worst sinners of all the Galileans?

Luke 13:4

What about the eighteen who perished when the tower of Siloam fell upon them? Do you really think that they were more guilty than all of the others in Jerusalem?

John 7:24

Stop judging based on the superficial. First you must embrace the standards of mercy and truth.”

Acts 28:2

The people who lived there showed us extraordinary kindness, for they welcomed us around the fire they had built because it was cold and rainy.

Acts 28:3

When Paul had gathered an armful of brushwood and was setting it on the fire, a venomous snake was driven out by the heat and latched onto Paul’s hand with its fangs.

Acts 28:5

But Paul shook the snake off, flung it into the fire, and suffered no harm at all.

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the despicable, the murderers, the perverts, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all deceivers, they will find their place in the lake of fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”