Acts 14:1-7
PAUL AND BARNABAS AT ICONIUM AND LYSTRA. Success and persecution at Iconium:... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL AND BARNABAS AT ICONIUM AND LYSTRA. Success and persecution at Iconium:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS IN ICONIUM THAT THEY WENT BOTH TOGETHER INTO THE SYNAGOGUE OF THE JEWS, AND SO SPAKE THAT A GREAT MULTITUDE BOTH OF THE JEWS AND ALSO OF THE GREEKS BELIEVED.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THE UNBELIEVING JEWS STIRRED UP THE GENTILES, AND MADE THEIR MINDS EVIL AFFECTED AGAINST THE BRETHREN.... [ Continue Reading ]
LONG TIME THEREFORE ABODE THEY, SPEAKING BOLDLY IN THE LORD, WHICH GAVE TESTIMONY UNTO THE WORD OF HIS GRACE, AND GRANTED SIGNS AND WONDERS TO BE DONE BY THEIR HANDS.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THE MULTITUDE OF THE CITY WAS DIVIDED; AND PART HELD WITH THE JEWS AND PART WITH THE APOSTLES.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THERE WAS AN ASSAULT MADE BOTH OF THE GENTILES, AND ALSO OF THE JEWS WITH THEIR RULERS, TO USE THEM DESPITEFULLY, AND TO STONE THEM,... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY WERE AWARE OF IT, AND FLED UNTO LYSTRA AND DERBE, CITIES OF LYCAONIA, AND UNTO THE REGION THAT LIETH ROUND ABOUT;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE THEY PREACHED THE GOSPEL. On leaving Antioch, Paul and Barnabas turned toward the east, pursuing their course for a distance of sixty miles over a table-land filled with countless herds of grazing sheep and goats, then crossed a small mountain ridge, and reached the thriving city of Iconiu... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE SAT A CERTAIN MAN AT LYSTRA, IMPOTENT IN HIS FEET, BEING A CRIPPLE FROM HIS MOTHER'S WOMB, WHO NEVER HAD WALKED.... [ Continue Reading ]
A miracle and its effect upon the people:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SAME HEARD PAUL SPEAK; WHO, STEADFASTLY BEHOLDING HIM, AND PERCEIVING THAT HE HAD FAITH TO BE HEALED,... [ Continue Reading ]
SAID WITH A LOUD VOICE, STAND UPRIGHT ON THY FEET. AND HE LEAPED AND WALKED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE PEOPLE SAW WHAT PAUL HAD DONE, THEY LIFTED UP THEIR VOICES, SAYING IN THE SPEECH OF LYCAONIA, THE GODS ARE COME DOWN TO US IN THE LIKENESS OF MEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY CALLED BARNABAS, JUPITER; AND PAUL, MERCURIUS, BECAUSE HE WAS THE CHIEF SPEAKER.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN THE PRIEST OF JUPITER, WHICH WAS BEFORE THEIR CITY, BROUGHT OXEN AND GARLANDS UNTO THE GATES AND WOULD HAVE DONE SACRIFICE WITH THE PEOPLE. Since there was apparently no synagogue at Lystra, Paul and Barnabas very likely preached in the open space near the gates or in the market-place. Now a ce... [ Continue Reading ]
The horrified speech of Paul:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH WHEN THE APOSTLES, BARNABAS AND PAUL, HEARD OF, THEY RENT THEIR CLOTHES, AND RAN IN AMONG THE PEOPLE, CRYING OUT,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SAYING, SIRS, WHY DO YE THESE THINGS? WE ALSO ARE MEN OF LIKE PASSIONS WITH YOU, AND PREACH UNTO YOU THAT YE SHOULD TURN FROM THESE VANITIES UNTO THE LIVING GOD, WHICH MADE HEAVEN, AND EARTH, AND THE SEA, AND ALL THINGS THAT ARE THEREIN;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO IN TIMES PAST SUFFERED ALL NATIONS TO WALK IN THEIR OWN WAYS.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEVERTHELESS HE LEFT NOT HIMSELF WITHOUT WITNESS, IN THAT HE DID GOOD, AND GAVE US RAIN FROM HEAVEN AND FRUITFUL SEASONS, FILLING OUR HEARTS WITH FOOD AND GLADNESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WITH THESE SAYINGS SCARCE RESTRAINED THEY THE PEOPLE THAT THEY HAD NOT DONE SACRIFICE UNTO THEM. Evidently there was here a bilingual situation which complicated matters. While the inhabitants of the city were fully able to use the Greek language in business and matters of every-day life and cou... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE CAME THITHER CERTAIN JEWS FROM ANTIOCH AND ICONIUM, WHO PERSUADED THE PEOPLE, AND, HAVING STONED PAUL, DREW HIM OUT OF THE CITY, SUPPOSING HE HAD BEEN DEAD.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE RETURN JOURNEY TO SYRIA. Mob violence in Lystra and the Gospel in Derbe:... [ Continue Reading ]
HOWBEIT, AS THE DISCIPLES STOOD ROUND ABOUT HIM, HE ROSE UP, AND CAME INTO THE CITY; AND THE NEXT DAY HE DEPARTED WITH BARNABAS TO DERBE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HAD PREACHED THE GOSPEL TO THAT CITY AND HAD TAUGHT MANY, THEY RETURNED AGAIN TO LYSTRA AND TO ICONIUM AND ANTIOCH,... [ Continue Reading ]
CONFIRMING THE SOULS OF THE DISCIPLES, AND EXHORTING THEM TO CONTINUE IN THE FAITH, AND THAT WE MUST THROUGH MUCH TRIBULATION ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HAD ORDAINED THEM ELDERS IN EVERY CHURCH, AND HAD PRAYED WITH FASTING, THEY COMMENDED THEM TO THE LORD, ON WHOM THEY BELIEVED. The news of that strange happening, in which men had almost been worshiped as gods, traveled quickly along the trade routes, reaching Iconium first and soon af... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AFTER THEY HAD PASSED THROUGH OUT PISIDIA, THEY CAME TO PAMPHYLIA.... [ Continue Reading ]
The last part of the return journey:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HAD PREACHED THE WORD IN PERGA, THEY WENT DOWN INTO ATTALIA,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THENCE SAILED TO ANTIOCH, FROM WHENCE THEY HAD BEEN RECOMMENDED TO THE GRACE OF GOD FOR THE WORK WHICH THEY FULFILLED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY WERE COME, AND HAD GATHERED THE CHURCH TOGETHER, THEY REHEARSED ALL THAT GOD HAD DONE WITH THEM, AND HOW HE HAD OPENED THE, DOOR OF FAITH UNTO THE GENTILES.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE THEY ABODE LONG TIME WITH THE DISCIPLES. It was impossible for Paul to be inactive in the service of his Lord while he was traveling back to Syria. So he and Barnabas made a missionary trip through Pisidia, the province adjoining Roman Galatia on the south. Thus they reached Pamphylia and... [ Continue Reading ]