Howbeit they waited when he should have [a]swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: [b]but after they had looked a great while, and saw no inconvenience come to him, they changed their minds, and said, That he was a God.

[c]In the same quarters, the chief man of the Isle (whose name was Publius) had possessions: the same received us, and lodged us three days courteously.

And so it was, that the father of Publius lay sick of the fever, and of a bloody flix: to whom Paul entered in, and when he prayed, he laid his hands on him, and healed him.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 28:6 The Greek word signifieth, to be inflamed, or to swell: moreover Dioscorides in book 6, chap. 38, witnesseth, that the biting of a viper causeth a swelling of the body, and so saith Nicander, in his remedies against poisons.
  2. Acts 28:6 There is nothing more unconstant, every way, than they which are ignorant of true religion.
  3. Acts 28:7 It never yet repented any man, that received the servant of God, were he never so miserable and poor.

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