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Acts 28:8 KJV
Acts · chapter 28 · verse 8
And 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.Acts 28:8 · King James Version
Acts 28:8 in context
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.
9So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed:
10Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.
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Key words (Strong's)
- PubliuspopliosPublius = " popular" , the chief magistrate of the island of MelitaG4196 →
- fatherpatērgenerator or male ancestor, either the nearest ancestor father of the corporeal nature…G3962 →
- prayedproseuchomaito offer prayers, to prayG4336 →
- feverpyretosfiery heat, feverG4446 →
- handscheirby the help or agency of any one, by means of any one, fig. applied to God symbolising…G5495 →
- passginomaito becomeG1096 →
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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