1 And at Iconium they went together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.
2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the souls of the Gentiles and embittered them against the brothers.
3 Therefore they stayed a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who gave testimony to the word of his grace and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
4 But the multitude of the city was divided, and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
5 And when a rush was made by both the Gentiles and the Jews with their rulers, to treat them shamefully and to stone them,
6 they became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the region round about;
7 and there they preached the gospel.
8 And at Lystra there sat a certain man who had no strength in his feet, lame from his mother's womb, who had never walked.
9 This man heard Paul speaking; and Paul, steadfastly beholding him and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,
10 said with a loud voice, "Stand upright on your feet." And he leaped up and walked.
11 And when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, "The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!"
12 And they called Barnabas Zeus, and Paul Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.
13 Then the priest of Zeus, whose temple was before their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and wanted to sacrifice together with the crowds.
14 But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their clothes and ran in among the crowd, crying out
15 and saying, "Men, why do you do these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach the gospel to you, that you should turn from these vanities to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things that are in them;
16 who in times past permitted all the nations to walk in their own ways.
17 Yet he did not leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."
18 Even by saying these things, they barely restrained the crowds from sacrificing to them.
19 And Jews came there from Antioch and Iconium, who won over the crowds; and having stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the city, supposing he was dead.
20 But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up and came into the city; and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.
21 And when they had preached the gospel to that city and made a good number of disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch,
22 confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying that we must enter the kingdom of God through many tribulations.
23 And when they had appointed elders for them in every church and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
24 And after passing through Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia;
25 and when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia;
26 and from there they sailed to Antioch, from which they had been commended to the grace of God for the work that they had now accomplished.
27 And when they had come and gathered the church together, they recounted all that God had done with them, and that he had opened to the Gentiles a door of faith.
28 And they stayed there a long time with the disciples.