Acts 14:20-21

AT DERBE. Acts 14:20 b, Acts 14:21 a.

Acts 14:20 b

and on the morrow he went forth with Barnabas to Derbe.

Acts 14:21 a

And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had made many disciples.

Acts 14:20 b - Acts 14:21 a The next day, or on the morrow, we are told, he was able to set out with Barnabas for the town of Derbe, between thirty and forty miles away. It lay on the southeast among the foothills of Tarsus. But the memory of this scene was ineffaceable. It was one of the many perils from his own countrymen and from the heathen, one of his being in death oft, which sank deepest into his mind. Once, says he, I was stoned. Henceforth, in remembrance of his sufferings, he regarded himself as always bearing about in the body the putting to death of Jesus and could tell the Galatians, in whose province he had thus suffered, Let no man trouble me for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus, the marks of the stones showered on him at Lystra, and the scourgings with great whips or thick rods, lacerating the flesh to the bone, which He had endured no fewer than eight times. (2 Corinthians 11:23-28; 2 Corinthians 4:10; Galatians 6:17.)

A long bare slope, with bushes and loose stones scattered over it, and a few ruined buildings of comparatively modern date, lead up to a broad low mound which crowns it, and under this, in all probability, lie, the remains of the Derbe of Paul. It was the frontier city of the Roman province, towards, the southeast, and, as such, was honored by a connection with the name of Claudius, as Claudio-Derbe. -Many disciples-' had joined the new faith in Derbe and thus another church of former heathen had been formed. (Geikie Hours With The Bible, Vol. II, pages 286-289).

485.

Where does Paul mention the stoning in his epistles?

486.

Describe the site of Derbewhat response to the gospel?