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 foreigners showed us not the common kindness. For they kindled a fire and welcomed all of us, because of the rain coming on, and because of the cold.

Beast

Then indeed he shook off the creature into the fire, suffering no harm.

Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said to the woman, Is it so that God has said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

But the wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of howling creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and he-goats shall dance there.

The beasts of the field shall honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen.

This is the rejoicing city, dwelling confidently, who says in her heart, I am, and no other still is. How she has become a ruin, a resting-place for animals! Everyone who passes by her shall hiss; he shall wag his hand.

No doubt

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

Do not judge according to sight, but judge righteous judgment.

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

A murderer

And Cain talked with his brother Abel. And it happened when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

and surely the blood of your lives will I require. At the hand of every animal 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 truly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he begged us, and we would not hear. Therefore this distress has come upon us.

And you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death. But he shall surely be put to death.

A man who is pressed down with the blood of a soul shall flee to the pit; do not let them uphold him.

For behold, Jehovah comes out of His place to punish the people of the earth for their iniquity; the earth also shall reveal her blood, and shall no more cover her dead.

so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berachiah, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.

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

But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, will have their part in the Lake burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

General references

You shall not kill.

If one is found dead in the land which Jehovah your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it is not known who has killed him,

A man who is pressed down with the blood of a soul shall flee to the pit; do not let them uphold him.