Acts 28:4

The Text-Critical English New Testament

When the native people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man is undoubtedly a murderer. Although he has been saved from the sea, the goddess Justice has not allowed him to live.”

Cross References

Matthew 23:35

As a result, all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth will come upon you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Matthew 27:25

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

Luke 13:2

Jesus responded to them, “Do you think that those Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered such things?

Luke 13:4

Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower in Siloam fell on them, do you think that they were worse offenders than all the other people who dwell in Jerusalem?

John 7:24

Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with right judgment.”

Acts 28:2

The native people showed us extraordinary kindness. For they welcomed us all and kindled a fire because of the rain that had set in and because of the cold.

Acts 28:3

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

Acts 28:5

But Paul shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no harm.

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the sinful, the detestable, the murderers, the fornicators, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their portion is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”