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When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, "This man must be a murderer; though he has escaped from the sea, justice has not allowed him to live."
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He, however, shook off the creature into the fire and suffered no harm.
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They were expecting him to swell up or drop dead, but after they had waited a long time and saw that nothing unusual had happened to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god.
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Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the leading man of the island, named Publius, who received us and entertained us hospitably for three days.
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It so happened that the father of Publius lay sick in bed with fever and dysentery. Paul visited him and cured him by praying and putting his hands on him.
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After this happened, the rest of the people on the island who had diseases also came and were cured.
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They bestowed many honors on us, and when we were about to sail, they put on board all the provisions we needed.
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Three months later we set sail on a ship that had wintered at the island, an Alexandrian ship with the Twin Brothers as its figurehead.
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We put in at Syracuse and stayed there for three days;
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then we weighed anchor and came to Rhegium. After one day there a south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli.
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There we found believers and were invited to stay with them for seven days. And so we came to Rome.