Acts 28:6-8

New Catholic Bible

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.

⁷ In the vicinity of that place there were lands belonging to the leading man of the island, whose name was Publius.^[a] He received us and gave us his hospitality for three days. ⁸ It so happened that this man’s father was sick with a fever and dysentery. Paul visited him and cured him by praying and laying hands on him.