When Paul had gathered (συστρεψαντος του Παυλου). Genitive absolute with first aorist active participle of συστρεφω, old verb to t…

Had gathered a bundle of sticks. For the purpose of making a fire.

There came a viper. A poisonous serpent. (See Barnes on…

And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks . . .—The act was characteristic of the cheerful energy which had been shown through…

And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita. And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they k…

The islanders showed kindness to “us all” (i.e., the 276 survivors) by building a fire, which was just what was needed in the cold and rain. When P…

And when Paul has gathered a bundle of sticks
Had picked up some sticks, and put them in a bundle fit for the fire, …

God can make strangers into friends—friends in distre .