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Paul on Malta: Healing and Hospitality

Acts 28:1-10

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Chapter 28
1 Once we had been safely ashore, we then found out that the island was called Malta. 2 The natives showed us unusual kindness, for they kindled a fire and welcomed us all because of the rain that had come upon us and because of the cold. 3 But Paul gathered a bundle of brushwood and laid it on the fire. A viper came out because of the heat and fastened onto his hand. 4 When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, "Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, though saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed to live." 5 So he shook the beast off into the fire and suffered no evil. 6 But they were expecting him to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after they had waited and watched him for a long time and nothing unusual had happened to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god. 7 In the estates around that place were lands belonging to the leading man of the island, named Publius. He welcomed us and hospitably lodged us for three days. 8 Publius's father was lying afflicted with fevers and dysentery. Paul entered, prayed, laid his hands on him, and healed him. 9 But when this had happened, the rest of the people on the island who had illnesses also came to him and were healed. 10 who also honored us with many honors; and when we were sailing away, they provided us with the things we needed.