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Acts 14:3-20

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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.
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.
19Presently, however, there came some Jews from Antioch, and Iconium who, after they had won over the people, stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the town, thinking him to be dead.
20But, when the disciples had gathered around him, he got up and went back into the town; the next day he went with Barnabas to Derbe.

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