The Acts

⁶But they expected that he would have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but when they were long in expectation, and beheld nothing amiss came to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god. ⁷Now in the neighbourhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius; who received us, and entertained us three days courteously. ⁸And it was so, that the father of Publius lay sick of fever and dysentery: unto whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laying his hands on him healed him. ⁹And when this was done, the rest also which had diseases in the island came, and were cured: ¹⁰who also honoured us with many honours; and when we sailed, they put on board such things as we needed. ¹¹And after three months we set sail in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the island, whose sign was The Twin Brothers. ¹²And touching at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.