Noun echidna (viper) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV)


Matthew

3: 7But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers (echidna)! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
12: 34You brood of vipers (echidna)! How can you speak good things, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
23: 33You snakes, you brood of vipers (echidna)! How can you escape being sentenced to hell?

Luke

3: 7John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, "You brood of vipers (echidna)! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Acts

28: 3Paul had gathered a bundle of brushwood and was putting it on the fire, when a viper (echidna), driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand.