Acts 28:5
“And hee shooke off the beast into the fire, and felt no harme.”
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Acts 28:5 Context
3And when Paul had gathered a bundle of stickes, and layde them on the fire, there came a Uiper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. 4And when the Barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they saide among themselues, No doubt this man is a murtherer, whom though hee hath escaped the Sea, yet Uengeance suffereth not to liue. 5And hee shooke off the beast into the fire, and felt no harme. 6Howbeit, they looked when hee should haue swollen, or fallen downe dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harme come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a God. 7In the same quarters were possessions of the chiefe man of the Iland, whose name was Publius, who receiued vs, and lodged vs three dayes courteously.
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Other Translations for Acts 28:5
And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.
- King James Version
However he shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no harm.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Howbeit he shook off the creature into the fire, and took no harm.
- American Standard Version (1901)
But shaking off the beast into the fire, he got no damage.
- Basic English Bible
*He* however, having shaken off the beast into the fire, felt no harm.
- Darby Bible
And he shook off the animal into the fire, and felt no harm.
- Webster's Bible
He, however, shook the reptile off into the fire and was unhurt.
- Weymouth Bible
However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn't harmed.
- World English Bible
But he schoke awei the beest in to the fier, and hadde noon harm.
- Wycliffe Bible
he then, indeed, having shaken off the beast into the fire, suffered no evil,
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for Acts 28:5
28:5 Having shaken off the venomous animal, he suffered no harm - The words of an eminent modern historian are, No venomous kind of serpent now breeds in Malta, neither hurts if it be brought thither from another place. Children are seen there handling and playing even with scorpions; I have seen one eating them. If this be so, it seems to be fixed by the wisdom of God, as an eternal memorial of what he once wrought there.