Acts 14:5-14

⁵When both Gentiles and Jews attempted to persuade their leaders to mistreat and stone Paul and Barnabas,

⁶they became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding region,

⁷and there they were proclaiming the gospel.

⁸At Lystra a certain man sat, powerless in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked.

⁹This man heard Paul speaking. Paul fixed his eyes on him and saw that he had faith to be made well.

¹⁰So he said to him in a loud voice, “Stand up on your feet.” Then the man jumped up and walked around.

¹¹When the multitude saw what Paul had done, they raised their voice, saying in the dialect of Lycaonia, “The gods have come down to us in the form of men.”

¹²They called Barnabas “Zeus,” and Paul, “Hermes,” because he was the main speaker.

¹³The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought oxen and wreaths to the gates; he and the multitudes wanted to offer sacrifice.

¹⁴But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothing and quickly went out into the crowd, crying out