SinaiActs 28:5
American Standard Version
Howbeit he shook off the creature into the fire, and took no harm.
Read all of Acts 28Open in the Sinai app
Acts 28:5 in other translations
However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn’t harmed.
Acts 28:5 in context
- 3But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out by reason of the heat, and fastened on his hand.
- 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.
- 5Howbeit he shook off the creature into the fire, and took no harm.
- 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.
- 7Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius; who received us, and entertained us three days courteously.