People of Philistia, the rod that beat you is broken, but you have no reason to be glad. When one snake dies, a worse one comes in its place. A snake's egg hatches a flying dragon.

The next morning you will feel as if you had been bitten by a poisonous snake.

When John saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to him to be baptized, he said to them, "You snakes---who told you that you could escape from the punishment God is about to send?

You snakes---how can you say good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.