Acts 28:1-10 - Paul On Malta
1 And when they were escaped, then they knew that the isle was called Melita. 2 and the people of the country showed us no little kindness, for they kindled a fire and received us every one because of the present rain, and because of cold. 3 And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, And put them into the fire, there came a viper out of the heat and leapt on his hand. 4 When the men of the country saw the worm hang on his hand, they said among themselves, "This man must needs be a murderer: Whom, though he have escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live." 5 But he shook off the vermin into the fire, and felt no harm. 6 Howbeit, they waited when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly. But after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
7 In the same quarters, the chief man of the isle whose name was Publius, had a lordship: the same received us, and lodged us three days courteously. 8 And it fortuned that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever, and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in and prayed, and laid his hands on him and healed him. 9 When this was done, others also which had diseases in the isle, came and were healed: 10 and they did us great honour. And when we departed, they laded us with things necessary.