The Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 14
{14:1} It happened in Iconium that they entered together into the
synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of
Jews and of Greeks believed. {14:2} But the [1>]disbelieving[<1] Jews
stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the
brothers. {14:3} Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking
boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting
signs and wonders to be done by their hands. {14:4} But the multitude
of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the
apostles. {14:5} When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with
their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,
{14:6} they became aware of it, and fled to the cities of Lycaonia,
Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region. {14:7} There they preached
the Good News.
{14:8} At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple
from his mother's womb, who never had walked. {14:9} He was listening
to Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him, and seeing that he had
faith to be made whole, {14:10} said with a loud voice, "Stand upright
on your feet!" He leaped up and walked. {14:11} When the multitude saw
what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the language
of Lycaonia, "The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!"
{14:12} They called Barnabas "Jupiter," and Paul "Mercury," because he
was the chief speaker. {14:13} The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was
in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and
would have made a sacrifice along with the multitudes. {14:14} But
when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their
clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out, {14:15} "Men, why
are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you,
and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things
to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all
that is in them; {14:16} who in the generations gone by allowed all
the nations to walk in their own ways. {14:17} Yet he didn't leave
himself without witness, in that he did good and gave [2>]you[<2]
rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food
and gladness."
{14:18} Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes
from making a sacrifice to them. {14:19} But some Jews from Antioch
and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they
stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was
dead.
{14:20} But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and
entered into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to
Derbe. {14:21} When they had preached the Good News to that city, and
had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and
Antioch, {14:22} confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them
to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must
enter into the Kingdom of God. {14:23} When they had appointed elders
for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they
commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
{14:24} They passed through Pisidia, and came to Pamphylia. {14:25}
When they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.
{14:26} From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been
committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.
{14:27} When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together,
they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he
had opened a door of faith to the nations. {14:28} They stayed there
with the disciples for a long time.
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Footnotes:
[1] {14:2} or, disobedient
[2] {14:17} TR reads "us" instead of "you"
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