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"Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path." - Psalm 119:105
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1 In Iconium, they entered together into the
synagogue of the Jews, and spoke, so that a great multitude both of Jews and of
Greeks believed. 2 But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the
souls of the Gentiles against the brothers. 3 Therefore they stayed there
a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his
grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands. 4 But the
multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the
apostles. 5 When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their
rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them, 6 they became
aware of it, and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the
surrounding region. 7 There they preached the Good News.
8 At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his
feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked. 9 He was
listening to Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him, and seeing that he had
faith to be made whole, 10 said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your
feet!” He leaped up and walked. 11 When the multitude saw what Paul had
done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, “The gods
have come down to us in the likeness of men!” 12 They called Barnabas
“Jupiter,” and Paul “Mercury,” because he was the chief speaker. 13 The
priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and
garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the
multitudes. 14 But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they
tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out, 15 “Men,
why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and
bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living
God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them; 16 who
in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways. 17 Yet
he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains
from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”
18 Even saying these things, they hardly stopped
the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them. 19 But some Jews from
Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they
stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
20 But as the disciples stood around him, he rose
up, and entered into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to
Derbe. 21 When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made
many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch, 22 confirming
the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that
through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom. 23 When they
had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting,
they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
24 They passed through Pisidia, and came to
Pamphylia. 25 When they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to
Attalia. 26 From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been
committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled. 27 When
they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the
things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to
the nations. 28 They stayed there with the disciples for a long time.
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