Acts 14:11-18

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.

¹⁶In bygone times he permitted all the nations to go their own ways.

¹⁷Yet he has not failed to give you, in the good he does, some revelation of himself — sending you from heaven rain and fruitful seasons, and gladdening your hearts with plenty and good cheer.”

¹⁸Even with this appeal they could hardly restrain the people from offering sacrifice to them.