Acts 28:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Barbarians

Acts 28:2

Beast

Zephaniah 2:15

No doubt

Luke 13:2

John 7:24

John 9:1

A murderer

General references

Exodus 20:13

Deuteronomy 21:1

Proverbs 28:17

Bible References

Barbarians

And the barbarous people showed us no little kindness; for they kindled a great fire and received all of us because of the present rain and because of the cold.

Beast

And he shook off the beast into the fire and felt no harm.

Now the serpent was more astute than all the animals of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Has God indeed said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures, and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls because I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert to give drink to my people, my chosen.

This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! anyone that passes by her shall hiss and wag his hand.

No doubt

And Jesus, answering, said unto them, Think ye that these Galilaeans suffered such things because they were greater sinners than all the other Galilaeans?

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.

And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man who was blind from his birth.

A murderer

And Cain talked with Abel his brother, and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and slew him.

For surely your blood which is your souls I will require; at the hand of every animal I will require it and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother I will require the soul (or life) of man.

And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall be surely put to death.

A man that does violence to the blood of any person shall flee all the way to the grave, and no one shall sustain him.

For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against himself: the earth also shall disclose her blood and shall no longer cover her slain.

that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye murdered between the temple and the altar.

Then all the people answered and said, His blood be on us and on our children.

But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

General references

Thou shalt not murder.

When one is found dead in the land which the LORD thy God gives thee to inherit, lying in the field, and it is not known who has slain him,

A man that does violence to the blood of any person shall flee all the way to the grave, and no one shall sustain him.