Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
shook off the beast and felt no harm—See Mark 16:18.
No doubt this man is a murderer—His chains, which they would see, might strengthen the impression.
whom . . . vengeance suffereth not to live—They believed in a Supreme, Resistless, Avenging Eye and Hand, however vague their notions of where it resided.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 28:5:
Matthew 16:23
Luke 10:19
2 Corinthians 12:6
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