Acts 28:5
Acts chapter 28 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Howbeit he shook off the creature into the fire, and took no harm.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Howbeit he shook off the creature into the fire, and took no harm.
Context
v.4And when the barbarians saw the venomous creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped from the sea, yet Justice hath not suffered to live.
v.5This passage
v.6But they expected that he would have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but when they were long in expectation and beheld nothing amiss come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 91:13
Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: The young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under foot.
- Numbers 21:6
And Jehovah sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
- Mark 16:18
they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall in no wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
- Luke 10:19
Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall in any wise hurt you.
- Romans 16:20
And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
- John 3:14
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up;