Acts 28:3
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.
KJV
συστρέψαντος δὲ τοῦ Παύλου φρυγάνων τι πλῆθος καὶ ἐπιθέντος ἐπὶ τὴν πυράν, ἔχιδνα ἀπὸ τῆς θέρμης ἐξελθοῦσα καθῆψεν τῆς χειρὸς αὐτοῦ.
Greek NT
Cum congregasset autem Paulus sarmentorum aliquantam multitudinem, et imposuisset super ignem, vipera a calore cum processisset, invasit manum ejus.
Vulgate
But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out by reason of the heat, and fastened on his hand.
ASV
And when Paul had gathered together a bundle of sticks and had laid them on the fire, a viper, coming out of the heat, fastened on his hand.
Douay-Rheims
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In this verse
In the original Greek
18 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- τι — SBLGNT
- τι — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἀπὸ — SBLGNT
- ἀπὸ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἐκ — Robinson-Pierpont
- ἐξελθοῦσα — SBLGNT
- ἐξελθοῦσα — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- διεξελθοῦσα — Robinson-Pierpont
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Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. And let no one, says he, think that I speak only of the past: 1 Corinthians 4:11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked. Do you see that all the life of Christians must be such as this; and not merely a day or two? For though the wrestler who is victorious in a single contest only, be crowned, he is not crowned again if he suffer a fall. And hung…
Cross-references
- Gen 3:15 — And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
- Job 20:16 — He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
- Mark 16:18 — They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
- Matt 12:34 — O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
- Matt 23:33 — Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
- Ps 91:13 — Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.