NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 1

Acts 28:1

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When we had escaped, then they learned that the island was called Malta.

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Acts 28:1–4

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When we had escaped, then they learned that the island was called Malta.

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The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire and received us all, because of the present rain and because of the cold.

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But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened on his hand.

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When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”

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  1. NU reads “we”

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