When the local people saw the creature hanging from his hand they said to one another, “This man must be a murderer. He escaped the sea, but Justice would not let him live.”
In context
2The local people showed us extraordinary kindness: they lit a fire and welcomed us all, because it had begun to rain and it was cold. 3Paul had gathered an armful of brushwood and was putting it on the fire when a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened on his hand. 4When the local people saw the creature hanging from his hand they said to one another, “This man must be a murderer. He escaped the sea, but Justice would not let him live.” 5He simply shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no harm. 6They were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead; but after waiting a long time and seeing that nothing out of the ordinary happened to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.
