Deeds (Act) of Apostles 28:3-12

³But when Paul had gathered a quantity of cuttings of vines, and laid on the fire, an adder came forth from the heat, and took him by the hand.

⁴And when the heathen men of the isle saw the beast hanging in his hand, they said together, For this man is a manslayer; and when he escaped from the sea, God’s vengeance suffer-eth him not to live in earth.

⁵But he shook away the beast into the fire, and had none harm or suffered nothing of evil.

⁶And they guessed that he should be turned into swelling, and fall down suddenly, and die. But when they abided long, and saw that nothing of evil was done in him, they turned them together, and said, that he was God.

⁷And in those places were manors or fields of the prince of the isle, Publius by name, which received us by three days benignly or with good will, and ‘found’ us.

⁸And it befell, that the father of Publius lay travailed with fevers and bloody flux. To whom Paul entered, and when he had prayed, and laid his hands on him, he healed him.

⁹And when this thing was done, all that in the isle had sicknesses came, and were healed or cured.

¹⁰Which also honoured us with many worships, and putted what things were necessary to us, when we shipped.

¹¹And after three months we shipped in a ship of Alexandria, that had wintered in the isle, to which was an excellent sign of Castor.

¹²And when we came to Syracuse, we dwelled there three days.