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 local people showed us extraordinary kindness, for they lit a fire and took us all in, since it was raining and cold.

Beast

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

Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”

But desert creatures will lie down there,
and owls will fill the houses.
Ostriches will dwell there,
and wild goats will leap about.

The animals of the field will honor Me,
jackals and ostriches,
because I provide water in the wilderness,
and rivers in the desert,
to give drink to My chosen people.

This is the self-assured city
that lives in security,
that thinks to herself:
I exist, and there is no one else.
What a desolation she has become,
a place for wild animals to lie down!
Everyone who passes by her
jeers and shakes his fist.

No doubt

And He responded to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all Galileans because they suffered these things?

Stop judging according to outward appearances; rather judge according to righteous judgment.”

As He was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth.

A murderer

Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

I will require the life of every animal and every man for your life and your blood. I will require the life of each man’s brother for a man’s life.

Then they said to each other, “Obviously, we are being punished for what we did to our brother. We saw his deep distress when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this trouble has come to us.”

You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of killing someone; he must be put to death.

A man burdened by bloodguilt
will be a fugitive until death.
Let no one help him.

For look, the Lord is coming from His place
to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity.
The earth will reveal the blood shed on it
and will no longer conceal her slain.

So all the righteous blood shed on the earth will be charged to you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

But the cowards, unbelievers, vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars—their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

General references

Do not murder.

“If a murder victim is found lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,

A man burdened by bloodguilt
will be a fugitive until death.
Let no one help him.