Acts 28:1-10

1Once safely ashore, we then learned that the island was called Malta.

2The local people showed us extraordinary kindness. They lit a fire and took us all in, since it was raining and cold.

3As Paul gathered a bundle of brushwood and put it on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand.

4When the local people saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man, no doubt, is a murderer. Even though he has escaped the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”

5But he shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no harm.

6They expected that he would begin to swell up or suddenly drop dead. After they waited a long time and saw nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.

7Now in the area around that place was an estate belonging to the leading man of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.

8Publius’s father was in bed suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went to him, and praying and laying his hands on him, he healed him.

9After this, the rest of those on the island who had diseases also came and were healed.

10So they heaped many honors on us, and when we sailed, they gave us what we needed.