Acts 28:4-6

International Standard Version

⁴ When the people who lived there saw the snake hanging from his hand, they told one another, “This man must be a murderer! He may have escaped from the sea, but Justice^[a] won’t let him live.” ⁵ But he shook the snake into the fire and wasn’t harmed. ⁶ They were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead, but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.