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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Acts 28:3

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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28:3-6 The locals of Malta understood justice as a personified power or deity carrying out judgment on a criminal. When nothing bad happened to Paul, the natives understood him as having power over snakes and concluded that he himself was a god (cp. 14:11-12). In fact, Paul’s survival demonstrated God’s protection (cp. Mark 16:17-18).
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