4When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”
5But Paul shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.
— Acts 28:4-5

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