Acts 28:5
And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.
Acts 28:5 in other translations
| BSB | But Paul shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no ill effects. |
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| WEB | However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn’t harmed. |
| ASV | Howbeit he shook off the creature into the fire, and took no harm. |
| YLT | he then, indeed, having shaken off the beast into the fire, suffered no evil, |
| DARBY | He however, having shaken off the beast into the fire, felt no harm. |
| BBE | But shaking off the beast into the fire, he got no damage. |
| Webster | And he shook off the animal into the fire, and felt no harm. |
What does Acts 28:5 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Acts 28:4-6
4-6. No doubt this man is a murderer--His chains, which they would see, might strengthen the impression. whom ... vengeance suffereth not to live--They believed in a Supreme, Resistless, Avenging Eye and Hand, however vague their notions of where it resided.
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Acts 28:1-10
God can make strangers to be friends; friends in distress. Those who are despised for homely manners, are often more friendly than the more polished; and the conduct of heathens, or persons called barbarians, condemns many in civilized nations, professing to be Christians. The people thought that Paul was a murderer, and that the viper was sent by Divine justice, to be the avenger of blood. They knew that there is a…
Acts 28:5 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Acts 28:5
- Luke 10:19
Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
- Mark 16:18
They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
- Psalms 91:13
Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
- Revelation 9:3-4
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
- Numbers 21:6-9
And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
- John 3:14-15
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
- Romans 16:20
And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
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Context
- Acts 28:4
And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
- Acts 28:5
And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.
- Acts 28:6
Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
Acts 28:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mas él, sacudiendo la víbora en el fuego, ningún mal padeció. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Lui donc, ayant secoué la bête dans le feu, n’en souffrit aucun mal; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Er nun schüttelte das Tier in das Feuer ab und erlitt nichts Schlimmes. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et ille quidem excutiens bestiam in ignem, nihil mali passus est. |