1. AND when we had escaped, then we knew that the island was called Melita. But the barbarians shewed us no small courtesy.
2. For kindling a fire, they refreshed us all, because of the present rain, and of the cold.
3. 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.
4. And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging on his hand, they said one to another: Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, who though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance doth not suffer him to live.