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Acts 28:3 KJV
Acts · chapter 28 · verse 3
And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.Acts 28:3 · King James Version
Acts 28:3 in context
1And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.
2And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
3And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.
4And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
5And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- gatheredsystrephōto twist together, roll together, to collect, combine, unite, of men, to assembleG4962 →
- bundleplēthosa multitude, a great number, of men or things, the whole number, the whole multitude, the…G4128 →
- sticksphryganona dry stick, a twig, all dry sticks, bush wood, fire wood, or similar material used as…G5434 →
- viperechidnaa viper, offspring of vipers, addressed to cunning, malignant, wicked menG2191 →
- PaulpaulosPaul or Paulus = " small or little" , Paul was the most famous of the apostles…G3972 →
- laidepitithēmiin the active voice, to put or lay upon, to add to, in the middle voice, to have put on…G2007 →
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What a great variety of places and circumstances do we find Paul in! He was a planet, and not a fixed star. Here we have him in an island to which, in all probability, he had never come if he had not been thrown upon it by a storm; and yet it seems God has work for him to do here.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-10