Acts 28:6

While the natives are waiting for Paul to drop dead at any moment, nothing is happening. Not only was there no swelling or inflammation, but also nothing at all was happening. The poison of the viper acts very quickly, in fact, the venom works so quickly that the antidotes they had seldom could be applied in time. Yet remember that Jesus had promised His apostles protection from such things (Mark 16:18). "They changed their minds and began to say that he was. god" In Lystra the people had first declared Paul to be. god and then they stoned him (Acts 14:11), now we have the opposite reaction. "But the truth was at neither extreme (Paul is neither. murder or. god). Instead of being drowned or poisoned by 'justice', Paul had actually been protected from both fates by Jesus" (Stott p. 394).