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Acts 28:6 KJV
Acts · chapter 28 · verse 6
Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.Acts 28:6 · King James Version
Acts 28:6 in context
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.
6Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
7In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously.
8And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- suddenlyaphnōsuddenlyG869 →
- Howbeitdebut, moreover, and, etcG1161 →
- swollenpimprēmito blow, to burn, to cause to swell, to render timid, to swell, become swollen, of the…G4092 →
- lookedprosdokaōto expect , to look for, wait forG4328 →
- mindsmetaballōto turn around, to turn about, to turn one's self about, or transform one's self, to…G3328 →
- deadnekrosproperly, one that has breathed his last, lifeless, deceased, departed, one whose soul is…G3498 →
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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