Acts 14:4-16

⁴And the multitude of the city was divided, and some were with the Jews, and some with the apostles,

⁵and when there was a purpose both of the nations and of the Jews with their rulers to use them despitefully, and to stone them,

⁶they having become aware, did flee to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, and Derbe, and to the region round about,

⁷and there they were proclaiming good news.

⁸And a certain man in Lystra, impotent in the feet, was sitting, being lame from the womb of his mother — who never had walked,

⁹this one was hearing Paul speaking, who, having stedfastly beheld him, and having seen that he hath faith to be saved,

¹⁰said with a loud voice, 'Stand up on thy feet upright;' and he was springing and walking,

¹¹and the multitudes having seen what Paul did, did lift up their voice, in the speech of Lycaonia, saying, 'The gods, having become like men, did come down unto us;'

¹²they were calling also Barnabas Zeus, and Paul Hermes, since he was the leader in speaking.

¹³And the priest of the Zeus that is before their city, oxen and garlands unto the porches having brought, with the multitudes did wish to sacrifice,

¹⁴and having heard, the apostles Barnabas and Paul, having rent their garments, did spring into the multitude, crying

¹⁵and saying, 'Men, why these things do ye? and we are men like-affected with you, proclaiming good news to you, from these vanities to turn unto the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all the things in them;

¹⁶who in the past generations did suffer all the nations to go on in their ways,