Acts 28:4-6

New Catholic Bible

⁴ On seeing the snake hanging from his hand, the natives said to one another, “This man must be a murderer. Although he escaped from the sea, Justice^[a] has not allowed him to live.”

⁵ However, he shook off the snake into the fire and suffered no harm. ⁶ They were expecting him to swell up or drop dead, but after waiting for a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god.