Acts Chapter 14
1 While in Iconium, Paul and Barnabas went into the synagogue of the Jews and spoke so that a great multitude of both Jews and Greeks believed.
2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and caused them to have evil thoughts⁺ against Paul and Barnabas.
3 Yet they stayed⁺ there for a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord. This testified to the Word of God's grace and He granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
4 But the multitude of the city was divided. Part held with the Jews and part with the apostles.
5 Then an assault was planned by both the Gentiles and the Jews and their rulers, to mistreat⁺ them and stone them.
6 Paul and Barnabas were aware of this and so they fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the surrounding⁺ region
7 and proclaimed⁺ the Gospel there.
8 In Lystra, a disabled⁺ man sat by the way. His feet had been crippled from his mother's womb and he had never walked.
9 As this man heard Paul speak, Paul looked at him steadfastly and perceived that he had faith to be healed.
10 So Paul said with a loud voice: Stand upright on your feet. And the crippled man leaped up and walked.
11 When the people saw what Paul had done, they raised⁺ their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia: The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men.
12 They called Barnabas, Jupiter and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.
13 Then the priest of Jupiter~, whose temple was near⁺ their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and wanted⁺ to make⁺ a sacrifice with the people.
14 When the apostles Barnabas and Paul, heard this, they tore⁺ their clothes and ran in among the people, crying out,
15 saying: Sirs, why do you do these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and we proclaim⁺ to you to turn away from these vain things to the living God who made Heaven and Earth and the sea and everything that is therein.
16 In times past, God allowed⁺ all nations to walk in their own ways.
17 Nevertheless He did not leave Himself without a witness in that He did good and gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
18 But saying these things scarcely restrained the multitudes⁺ to not make a sacrifice to them.
19 Then certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium came and persuaded the people, and after they stoned Paul, they dragged⁺ him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
20 However, as the disciples stood around⁺ Paul, he rose up and went back into the city. The next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.
21 After they had proclaimed⁺ the Gospel to that city and taught many, they returned again to Lystra and to Iconium and Antioch.
22 They reassured⁺ the souls of the disciples and exhorted them to continue in the faith, telling them that often we must go through much tribulation in order to enter into the kingdom of God.
23 After they had ordained elders in every assembly⁺ of believers and prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they believed.
24 And then, after they had passed throughout Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia.
25 When they had proclaimed⁺ the Word in Perga, they went down into Attalia.
26 From there⁺ they sailed back to Antioch, from where they had been recommended to the grace of God for the work that they fulfilled.
27 When they returned⁺, they gathered the assembly⁺ together and reviewed⁺ all that God had done through⁺ them and how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
28 And they stayed⁺ with the disciples there for a long time.