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

Beast

Bible References

Barbarians

Acts 28:2
The strange-speaking natives showed us remarkable kindness, for they lighted a fire and made us all welcome because of the pelting rain and the cold.

Beast

Acts 28:5
He, however, shook the reptile off into the fire and was unhurt.

No doubt

Luke 13:2
"Do you suppose," He asked in reply, "that those Galilaeans were worse sinners than the mass of the Galilaeans, because this happened to them?
John 7:24
Do not form superficial judgements, but form the judgements that are just."
John 9:1
As He passed by, He saw a man who had been blind from his birth.

A murderer

Matthew 23:35
that all the innocent blood shed upon earth may come on you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berechiah whom you murdered between the Sanctuary and the altar.
Matthew 27:25
"His blood," replied all the people, "be on us and on our children!"
Revelation 21:8
But as for cowards and the unfaithful, and the polluted, and murderers, fornicators, and those who practise magic or worship idols, and all liars--the portion allotted to them shall be in the Lake which burns with fire and sulphur. This is the Second Death."