Acts 14

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Acts 14:1 And in Iconium they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews and spoke in such a way that a great multitude of both Jews and Greeks believed.
Acts 14:2 But the Jews who were disobedient stirred up and ill-affected the minds of the Gentiles against the brothers.
Acts 14:3 Therefore they spent a considerable amount of time speaking with boldness in the Lord, who testified to the word of His grace by granting signs and wonders to be done through their hands.
Acts 14:4 But the multitude of the city was divided, and some were with the Jews and some with the apostles.
Acts 14:5 And when a hostile attempt was made by both the Gentiles and Jews with their rulers to treat [the apostles] outrageously and to stone them,
Acts 14:6 They became aware of [it] and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding region.
Acts 14:7 And there they announced the gospel.
Acts 14:8 And in Lystra a certain man was sitting, without strength in his feet, lame from his mother's womb, who had never walked.
Acts 14:9 This man heard Paul speaking, who, looking intently at him and seeing that he had faith to be healed,
Acts 14:10 Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on your feet. And he leaped up and began to walk.
Acts 14:11 And when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in Lycaonian, The gods have become like men and have come down to us.
Acts 14:12 And they called Barnabas, Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, since he was the one who took the lead in the discourse.
Acts 14:13 And the priest of Zeus, whose [temple] was before the city, brought bulls and garlands to the gates and wanted to offer a sacrifice with the crowds.
Acts 14:14 But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard [this,] they tore their garments and rushed out into the crowd, crying out
Acts 14:15 And saying, Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like feeling as you, [and] announce the gospel to you that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and the sea and all things in them;
Acts 14:16 Who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to go their ways.
Acts 14:17 And yet He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good by giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.
Acts 14:18 And saying these things, they restrained the crowds [only] with difficulty from offering sacrifices to them.
Acts 14:19 But Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there; and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged [him] outside the city, supposing that he was dead.
Acts 14:20 But as the disciples surrounded him, he rose up and entered into the city. And on the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.
Acts 14:21 And when they had announced the gospel to that city and had made a considerable number of disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch,
Acts 14:22 Establishing the souls of the disciples, exhorting [them] to continue in the faith and [saying] that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.
Acts 14:23 And when they had appointed elders for them in every church and had prayed with fastings, they committed them to the Lord into whom they had believed.
Acts 14:24 And they passed through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia.
Acts 14:25 And when they had spoken the word in Perga, they came down to Attalia.
Acts 14:26 And from there they sailed away to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.
Acts 14:27 And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared the things that God had done with them and that He had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
Acts 14:28 And they spent no little time [there] with the disciples.
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