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

The natives showed us extraordinary kindness; for because of the rain that had set in and because of the cold, they kindled a fire and received us all.

Beast

However he shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no harm.

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”

But desert creatures will lie down there,
And their houses will be full of owls;
Ostriches also will live there, and shaggy goats will frolic there.

“The beasts of the field will glorify Me,
The jackals and the ostriches,
Because I have given waters in the wilderness
And rivers in the desert,
To give drink to My chosen people.

This is the exultant city
Which dwells securely,
Who says in her heart,
“I am, and there is no one besides me.”
How she has become a desolation,
A resting place for beasts!

Everyone who passes by her will hiss

And wave his hand in contempt.

No doubt

And Jesus said to them, “Do you suppose that these Galileans were greater sinners than all other Galileans because they suffered this fate?

Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”

As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth.

A murderer

Cain told Abel his brother. And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.

Surely I will require

your lifeblood;

from every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man’s brother I will require the life of man.

Then they said to one another, “Truly we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen; therefore this distress has come upon us.”

Moreover, you shall not take ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death.

A man who is laden with the guilt of human blood
Will be a fugitive until death; let no one support him.

For behold, the Lord is about to come out from His place
To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;
And the earth will reveal her bloodshed
And will no longer cover her slain.

so that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

And all the people said, “His blood shall be on us and on our children!”

But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

General references

“You shall not murder.

“If a slain person is found lying in the open country in the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess, and it is not known who has struck him,

A man who is laden with the guilt of human blood
Will be a fugitive until death; let no one support him.