Acts 14:1-15

¹The same thing occurred in Iconium, where Paul and Barnabas went into the Jewish synagogue, and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed in Christ.

²But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the Gentiles, and poisoned their minds against the Lord's followers.

³Therefore Paul and Barnabas spent a long time there, and spoke out fearlessly, relying on the Lord, who confirmed the message of his love by permitting signs and wonders to take place at their hands.

⁴But the townspeople were divided, some siding with the Jews, some with the apostles;

⁵and, when there was an attempt on the part of both Gentiles and Jews, with their leaders, to resort to violence and to stone them,

⁶the apostles heard of it, and took refuge in Lystra and Derbe, towns in Lycaonia, and in the district around,

⁷and there they continued to tell the good news.

⁸In the streets of Lystra there used to sit a man who had no power in his feet; he had been lame from his birth, and had never walked.

⁹This man was listening to Paul speaking, when Paul, looking intently at him, and seeing that he had the faith to be healed,

¹⁰said loudly, “Stand upright on your feet.” The man leaped up, and began walking about,

¹¹and the crowd, seeing what Paul had done, called out in the Lycaonian language, “The Gods have come down to us in human form.”

¹²So they called Barnabas ‘Zeus,’ and Paul ‘Hermes,’ because he took the lead in speaking;

¹³and the priest of Zeus-beyond-the-Walls, accompanied by the crowd, brought bullocks and garlands to the gates, with the intention of offering sacrifices.

¹⁴But, when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd. “Friends, why are you doing this?” they shouted.

¹⁵“We are only people like yourselves, and we have come with the good news that you should turn away from these follies to a living God, who made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.