Acts 28:4

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

Beast

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

Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, has God said, you 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 howling creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.

The beast of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches: 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 securely, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how has she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! everyone that passes by her shall hiss, and shake his fist.

No doubt

And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose you that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things?

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge 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.

And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

And they said one to another, We are verily 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 you 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 to a pit; let no man help him.

For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her bloodshed, and shall no more 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 Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you slew between the temple and the altar.

Then answered all the people, 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

You shall not kill.

If one be found slain in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess, 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 to a pit; let no man help him.