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MODERN LITERAL VERSION

14:1 Now it happened in Iconium according to the same thing, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews and spoke so-that a large crowd believed, both from the Jews and Greeks.

14:2 But the disobeying Jews aroused and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brethren.

14:3 Therefore they indeed stayed a considerable time there, speaking boldly in the Lord, (him testifying to the word of his grace), giving signs and wonders to happen through their hands.

14:4 But the crowd of the city was split-apart, and some were with the Jews and some with the apostles.

14:5 And when it became an impulse of both of the Gentiles and of the Jews, with their rulers, to abuse them and to stone them,

14:6 they fled for refuge, being conscious of it, to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe and the region around them.

14:7 And they were proclaiming the good-news there.


14:8 And there was a certain man, who sat in Lystra, being* powerless in his feet, being lame from his mother's womb, who had never* walked.

14:9 This man heard Paul speaking, who, having stared at him and seeing that he had faith to be cured,

14:10 said with a loud voice, Stand uprightly upon your feet. And he leaped up and walked.


14:11 Now when the crowd saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in Lycaonian, The gods have come down to us who are similar to men.

14:12 And indeed, they called Barnabas, Zeus, but Paul, Hermes, since he was leading the speech.

14:13 Now the priest of Zeus, whose temple was before their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates and wished to sacrifice them with the crowds.


14:14 But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they ripped their garments and dashed into the crowd, crying out

14:15 and saying, Men! Why are you* doing these things? We are also human, of like-feelings with you* and are proclaiming to you* good-news to turn you away from these futile things to the living God, who made* the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all that is in them;

14:16 who permitted all the nations to conduct-themselves, in the generations gone-by, in their own ways.

14:17 Although he did not leave himself unwitnessed, by doing good, giving rainfalls and fruitful seasons to us from heaven, filling our hearts with nourishment and joy.

14:18 And saying these things, with difficulty they made the crowds cease from sacrificing to us.


14:19 But Jews came upon us there from Antioch and Iconium and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, supposing him to have died.

14:20 But the disciples surrounded him, and he rose* up and entered into the city, and he went forth on the next-day with Barnabas to Derbe.

14:21 And when they had proclaimed the good-news to that city, and had made a considerable number of disciples, they returned to Lystra and Iconium and Antioch,

14:22 further strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to remain in the faith and that it is essential for us through many afflictions to enter into the kingdom of God.

14:23 And when they had assigned elders to them in every congregation*, and had prayed with fasting, they intrusted them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.


14:24 And they went through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia.

14:25 And when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia;

14:26 and they sailed from there to Antioch, from where they had been given to the grace of God *for the work which they had fulfilled.
{48-50 AD. Antioch. April 5, 49 AD A skirmish between Roman troops & the Jews at the Passover.}


14:27 And when they had come and had gathered the congregation* together, they reported how-much God had done with them and that he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.

14:28 And they stayed there with the disciples for not just a little time.
{50 AD. Jerusalem. Caractacus of Britain conquered and sent to Rome.}