Acts 14:6-28 ▼

6 having become aware, they fled to the Lycaonian cities Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding region,

7 and there they continued preaching the gospel.

8 And in Lystra a certain man was sitting, crippled in the feet, lame from the womb of his mother, who had never walked.

9 This man heard Paul speaking, who, having looked intently at him and having seen that he has faith to be healed,

10 said in a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet!” And he sprang up and began to walk.

11 And the crowds, having seen what Paul had done, lifted up their voice in Lycaonian, saying, “The gods have come down to us, having become like men!”

12 And Barnabas they began calling Zeus; and Paul, Hermes, because he was the leading speaker.

13 And the priest of Zeus, being just outside the city, having brought oxen and wreaths to the gates, was desiring with the crowds to sacrifice.

14 But the apostles Barnabas and Paul, having heard, having torn their garments, rushed out into the crowd, crying out

15 and saying, “Men, why do you? do these things? We also are men of like nature with you?, proclaiming the gospel to you? to turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things in them,

16 who in the generations past allowed all the nations to go their ways.

17 And yet He did not leave Himself without witness, doing good, giving to you? rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your? hearts with food and gladness.”

18 Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the crowds from sacrificing to them.

19 But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, and having stoned Paul, they dragged him outside the city, supposing him to have died.

20 But the disciples having surrounded him, having risen up, he entered into the city. And on the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.

21 And having proclaimed the gospel to that city and having discipled many, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch,

22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith and that “through many tribulations it is necessary for us to enter into the kingdom of God.”

23 And having appointed elders for them in every church, having prayed, with fasting they committed them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.

24 And having passed through Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia,

25 and having spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.

26 And from there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work that they had fulfilled.

27 And having arrived and having gathered together the church, they began declaring all that God had done with them, and that He had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.

28 And they remained no little time with the disciples.