Acts 28:6
Good News Translation
They were waiting for him to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after waiting for a long time and not seeing anything unusual happening to him, they changed their minds and said, "He is a god!"

New Revised Standard Version
They were expecting him to swell up or drop dead, but after they had waited a long time and saw that nothing unusual had happened to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god.

Contemporary English Version
The people kept thinking that Paul would either swell up or suddenly drop dead. They watched him for a long time, and when nothing happened to him, they changed their minds and said, "This man is a god."

New American Bible
They were expecting him to swell up or suddenly to fall down dead but, after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But they supposed that he would begin to swell up and that he would suddenly fall down and die. But expecting long and seeing that there came no harm to him, changing their minds, they said that he was a god.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But they supposed that he would begin to swell up and that he would suddenly fall down and die. But expecting long and seeing that there came no harm to him, changing their minds, they said that he was a god.

said.

Acts 12:22 And the people made acclamation, saying: It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.

Acts 14:11-13 And when the multitudes had seen what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice in the Lycaonian tongue, saying: The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. . . .

Matthew 21:9 And the multitudes that went before and that followed cried, saying: Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.

Matthew 27:22 Pilate saith to them: What shall I do then with Jesus that is called Christ? They say all: Let him be crucified.

Context
Ashore on Malta
5And he indeed, shaking off the beast into the fire, suffered no harm. 6But they supposed that he would begin to swell up and that he would suddenly fall down and die. But expecting long and seeing that there came no harm to him, changing their minds, they said that he was a god. 7Now in these places were possessions of the chief man of the island, named Publius: who, receiving us for three days, entertained us courteously.…
Cross References
Acts 8:10
To whom they all gave ear, from the least to the greatest, saying: This man is the power of God, which is called great.

Acts 14:11
And when the multitudes had seen what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice in the Lycaonian tongue, saying: The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.

Acts 28:7
Now in these places were possessions of the chief man of the island, named Publius: who, receiving us for three days, entertained us courteously.

Acts 28:5
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