Acts 14:10-16

¹⁰So Paul shouted at him, “Stand up on your feet.” And the man jumped up and started to walk around.

¹¹A big mob of people saw Paul do that, and they yelled out in their own Lycaonian language, “The gods turned themselves into men and they came here to us.”

¹²And those people reckoned Barnabas was their god called Zeus and they reckoned Paul was their god called Hermes, because Paul did all the talking.

¹³There was a house for Zeus just outside the town, and there was a man there that looked after the ceremonies for Zeus. That man, with all the people, got some bulls and some flowers, and took them to the gates of the town. They wanted to show respect to Paul and Barnabas, just like they always showed respect to their gods. They were going to kill those bulls for them, and they were going to give them the flowers too.

¹⁴But somebody told Paul and Barnabas what they wanted to do, and then Paul and Barnabas tore their clothes to show them they were upset, and they ran into the crowd of people. They shouted,

¹⁵“Hey, you fellows, what are you doing? Why are you doing this? We are just men, like you. We are telling you good news, and we are saying that you have to stop showing respect to things that are not the true God. You have to turn around and follow the God that is alive. He made the sky and the earth and the sea and everything in them.

¹⁶And he let the people in every country go their own way, up till now,