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And 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 has escaped the sea, yet vengeance does not suffer
him to live.
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And he shook off the beast into the fire and felt no harm.
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But they were waiting to see when he should have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly; but after they had waited a great while and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.
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In the same quarters were possessions of a principal man of the island, whose name was Publius, who received us and lodged us three days courteously.
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And it came to pass that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of dysentery, to whom Paul entered in and prayed and laid his hands on him and healed him.
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So when this was done, others also, who had diseases in the island, came and were healed,
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who also honoured us with many gifts; and when we departed, they laded
us with such things as were necessary.
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And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose ensign was Castor and Pollux.
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And landing at Syracuse, we tarried
there three days.
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And having gone around, we came to Rhegium, and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli,
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where we found brethren, who asked us to tarry with them seven days, and so we went toward Rome.