Acts 28:2

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Summary

And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.

Barbarous

Shewed

Hebrews 13:2

Because

John 18:18

2 Corinthians 11:27

Bible References

Barbarous

When the natives saw the reptile hanging from his hand, they said to one another, "Beyond a doubt this man is a murderer, for though he has been rescued from the sea, justice will not let him live."

To Greeks and to all the other nations, to cultured and to uncultured people alike, I owe a duty.

So if I do not know the meaning of the language, I should be a foreigner to the man who speaks it, and he would be a foreigner to me.

In this new relation there is no Greek and Jew, no circumcised and uncircumcised, no barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is everything and in us all.

Shewed

The next day we landed at Sidon, and Julius kindly permitted Paul to visit his friends and enjoy their attentions.

And I solemnly say to you, no one who gives a cup of cold water to one of the least of my disciples, because he is a disciple, will ever fail to get his reward."

Jesus answered: "A man was on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell into the hands of robbers, who both stripped him and beat him till he was half dead, and then went off and left him.

Indeed, when heathen people who have no law instinctively do what the law demands, although they have no law, they are a law to themselves,

Do not remain neglectful of hospitality to strangers, for by it some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Because

Because it was cold, the slaves and attendants had made a charcoal fire and were standing about it warming themselves; so Peter too was standing among them warming himself.

through toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, through many a fasting season, poorly clad and exposed to cold.