Acts 28:3-6 ▼

3 Paul gathered a bundle of sticks and put it on the fire. A poisonous snake was forced out by the heat and attached itself to Paul's hand.

4 When the people who lived there saw the snake hanging from his hand, they told one another, |This man must be a murderer! He may have escaped from the sea, but Justice won't let him live.|

5 But he shook the snake into the fire and wasn't harmed.

6 They were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead, but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.