Acts 14:1-28
14 Now in I·coʹni·um+ they entered together into the synagogue+ of the Jews and spoke in such a manner that a great multitude of both Jews and Greeks+ became believers.
2 But the Jews that did not believe stirred up+ and wrongly influenced the souls of people of the nations against the brothers.+
3 Therefore they spent considerable time speaking with boldness by the authority of Jehovah,* who bore witness to the word of his undeserved kindness by granting signs and portents to occur through their hands.+
4 However, the multitude of the city was split, and some were for the Jews but others for the apostles.
5 Now when a violent attempt took place on the part of both people of the nations and Jews with their rulers, to treat them insolently and pelt them with stones,+
6 they, on being informed of it, fled+ to the cities of Lyc·a·oʹni·a, Lysʹtra and Derʹbe and the country round about;
7 and there they went on declaring the good news.+
8 Now in Lysʹtra there was sitting a certain man disabled in his feet, lame from his mother’s womb,+ and he had never walked at all.
9 This man was listening to Paul speak, who, on looking at him intently and seeing he had faith+ to be made well,*
10 said with a loud voice: “Stand up erect on your feet.” And he leaped up and began walking.+
11 And the crowds, seeing what Paul had done, raised their voices, saying in the Lyc·a·oʹni·an tongue: “The gods+ have become like humans and have come down to us!”
12 And they went calling Barʹna·bas Zeus,* but Paul Herʹmes,* since he was the one taking the lead in speaking.
13 And the priest of Zeus, whose [temple] was before the city,* brought bulls and garlands to the gates and was desiring to offer sacrifices+ with the crowds.
14 However, when the apostles Barʹna·bas and Paul heard of it, they ripped their outer garments and leaped out into the crowd, crying out
15 and saying: “Men, why are YOU doing these things? We also are humans+ having the same infirmities+ as YOU do, and are declaring the good news to YOU, for 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 In the past generations he permitted all the nations to go on in their ways,+
17 although, indeed, he did not leave himself without witness in that he did good,+ giving YOU rains+ from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling YOUR hearts to the full with food and good cheer.”+
18 And yet by saying these things they scarcely restrained the crowds from sacrificing to them.
19 But Jews arrived from Antioch and I·coʹni·um and persuaded the crowds,+ and they stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, imagining he was dead.+
20 However, when the disciples surrounded him, he rose up and entered into the city. And on the next day he left with Barʹna·bas for Derʹbe.+
21 And after declaring the good news to that city and making quite a few disciples,+ they returned to Lysʹtra and to I·coʹni·um and to Antioch,
22 strengthening the souls of the disciples,+ encouraging them to remain in the faith and [saying]: “We must enter into the kingdom of God through many tribulations.”+
23 Moreover, they appointed* older men+ for them in each congregation and, offering prayer with fastings,+ they committed them to Jehovah*+ in whom they had become believers.
24 And they went through Pi·sidʹi·a and came into Pam·phylʹi·a,+
25 and, after speaking the word* in Perga, they went down to At·ta·liʹa.
26 And from there they sailed off for Antioch,+ where they had been entrusted to the undeserved kindness of God for the work they had fully performed.+
27 When they had arrived and had gathered the congregation together, they proceeded to relate+ the many things God had done by means of them, and that he had opened to the nations the door to* faith.+
28 So they spent not a little time with the disciples.
Footnotes
^ See App 1D.
^ Or, “to be saved.”
^ Or, “Jupiter.” Gr., Diʹa; Lat., Ioʹvem.
^ Or, “Mercury.” Gr., Her·menʹ; Lat., Mer·cuʹri·um.
^ Lit., “the (one) being before the city.”
^ Lit., “having appointed [by extended hand].”
^ See App 1D.
^ “Word,” BD; אACVgSyp, “word of the Lord”; P74, “word of God”; J17, “word of Jehovah.”
^ Or, “of.”
