Acts 14:1-12 ▼

1 It happened in Iconium that they entered together into the Jewish synagogue, and so spoke that a great number of both of Jews and of Greeks believed.

2 But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the non-Jewish people against the brothers.

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.

4 But the population of the city was divided. Some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.

5 When some of both the non-Jewish people and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,

6 they became aware of it, and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.

7 There they preached the Good News.

8 At Lystra a certain man sat, without strength in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked.

9 He was listening to Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be made whole,

10 said with a loud voice, |Stand upright on your feet.| He leaped up and walked.

11 When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, |The gods have come down to us in human form.|

12 They called Barnabas |Jupiter,| and Paul |Mercury,| because he was the chief speaker.