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14:1  In Iconium the same thing happened — they went into the synagogue and spoke in such a way that a large number of both Jews and Greeks came to trust.
14:2  But the Jews who would not be persuaded stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.
14:3  Therefore, Sha’ul and Bar-Nabba remained for a long time, speaking boldly about the Lord, who bore witness to the message about his love and kindness by enabling them to perform signs and miracles.
14:4  However, the people of the city were divided — some sided with the unbelieving Jews, others with the emissaries.
14:5  Eventually the unbelievers, both Jews and Gentiles, together with their leaders, made a move to mistreat the emissaries, even to stone them;
14:6  but they learned of it and escaped to Lystra and Derbe, towns in Lycaonia, and to the surrounding country,
14:7  where they continued proclaiming the Good News.
14:8  There was a man living in Lystra who could not use his feet — crippled from birth, he had never walked.
14:9  This man listened to Sha’ul speaking. Sha’ul, looking at him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed,
14:10  said with a loud voice, “Stand up on your feet!” He jumped up and began to walk.
14:11  When the crowds saw what Sha’ul had done, they began to shout in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in the form of men!”
14:12  They began calling Bar-Nabba “Zeus” and Sha’ul “Hermes,” since he did most of the talking;
14:13  and the priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates, intending to offer a sacrifice to them with the people.
14:14  When the emissaries Bar-Nabba and Sha’ul heard of it, they tore their clothes and ran into the crowd, shouting,
14:15  “Men! Why are you doing this? We’re just men, human like you! We are announcing Good News to you — turn from these worthless things to the living God who made heaven and earth and the sea and everything in them!
14:16  In times past, he allowed all peoples to walk in their own ways;
14:17  yet he did not leave himself without evidence of his nature; because he does good things, giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons, filling you with food and your hearts with happiness!”
14:18  Even saying this barely kept the crowds from sacrificing to them.
14:19  Then some unbelieving Jews came from Antioch and Iconium. They won over the crowds, stoned Sha’ul and dragged him outside the city, thinking he was dead.
14:20  But as the talmidim gathered around him, he got up and went back into the town. The next day, he left with Bar-Nabba for Derbe.
14:21  After proclaiming the Good News in that city and making many people into talmidim, they returned to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch,
14:22  strengthening the talmidim, encouraging them to remain true to the faith, and reminding them that it is through many hardships that we must enter the Kingdom of God.
14:23  After appointing elders for them in every congregation, Sha’ul and Bar-Nabba, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord in whom they had put their trust.
14:24  Passing through Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia.
14:25  After speaking the message in Perga, they came down to Attalia; and from there, they sailed back to Antioch,
14:26  the place where they had been handed over to the care of God for the work which they had now completed.
14:27  When they arrived, they gathered the Messianic community together and reported what God had done through them, that he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
14:28  And they stayed for some time there with the talmidim.