l life, behold we turn to the Gentiles.
13:47. For so the Lord hath commanded us: I have set thee to be the
light of the Gentiles: that thou mayest be for salvation unto the utmost
part of the earth.
13:48. And the Gentiles hearing it were glad and glorified the word of
the Lord: and as many as were ordained to life everlasting believed.
13:49. And the word of the Lord was published throughout the whole
country.
13:50. But the Jews stirred up religious and honourable women and the
chief men of the city: and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas:
and cast them out of their coasts.
13:51. But they, shaking off the dust of their feet against them, came
to Iconium.
13:52. And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Ghost.
Acts Chapter 14
Paul and Barnabas preach in Iconium and Lystra. Paul heals a cripple.
They are taken for gods. Paul is stoned. They preach in Derbe and Perge.
14:1. And it came to pass in Iconium that they entered together into the
synagogue of the Jews and so spoke that a very great multitude both of
the Jews and of the Greeks did believe.
14:2. But the unbelieving Jews stirred up and incensed the minds of the
Gentiles against the brethren.
14:3. A long time therefore they abode there, dealing confidently in the
Lord, who gave testimony to the word of his grace, granting signs and
wonders to be done by their hands.
14:4. And the multitude of the city was divided. And some of them indeed
held with the Jews, but some with the apostles.
14:5. And when there was an assault made by the Gentiles and the Jews
with their rulers, to use them contumeliously and to stone them:
14:6. They, understanding it, fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of
Lycaonia, and to the whole country round about: and were there preaching
the gospel.
14:7. And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, a
cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked.
14:8. This same heard Paul speaking. Who looking upon him and seeing
that he had faith to be healed,
14:9. Said with a loud voice: Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped
up and walked.
14:10. And when the multitudes had seen what Paul had done, they lifted
up their voice in the Lycaonian tongue, saying: The gods are come down
to us in the likeness of men.
14:11. And they called Barnabas, Jupiter: but Paul, Mercury: because he
was chief speaker.
14:12. The priest also of Jupiter that was before the city, brin
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