Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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In Iconium
1 The same thing happened in
Iconium: Paul and Barnabas
went to the synagogue and spoke in
such a way that a great number of
Jews and Gentiles became believers.
2 But the Jews who would not believe
stirred up the Gentiles and
turned them against the believers.
3 The apostles stayed there for a long
time, speaking boldly about the
Lord, who proved that their message
about his grace was true by giving
them the power to perform miracles
and wonders.
4 The people of the city
were divided: some were for the
Jews, others for the apostles.
5 Then some Gentiles and Jews,
together with their leaders, decided
to mistreat the apostles and stone
them.
6 When the apostles learned
about it, they fled to the cities of
Lystra and Derbe in Lycaonia and to
the surrounding territory.
7 There
they preached the Good News.
In Lystra and Derbe
8 In Lystra there was a crippled
man who had been lame from birth
and had never been able to walk.
9 He sat there and listened to Paul's
words. Paul saw that he believed
and could be healed, so he looked
straight at him
10 and said in a loud
voice, “Stand up straight on your
feet!” The man jumped up and
started walking around.
11 When the
crowds saw what Paul had done,
they started shouting in their own
Lycaonian language, “The gods have
become like men and have come
down to us!”
12 They gave Barnabas
the name Zeus, and Paul the name
Hermes, because he was the chief
speaker.
13 The priest of the god
Zeus, whose temple stood just outside
the town, brought bulls and
flowers to the gate, for he and the
crowds wanted to offer sacrifice to
the apostles.
14 When Barnabas and Paul heard
what they were about to do, they
tore their clothes and ran into the
middle of the crowd, shouting,
15 “Why are you doing this? We ourselves
are only human beings like
you! We are here to announce the
Good News, to turn you away from
these worthless things to the living
God, who made heaven, earth, sea,
and all that is in them. note
16 In the past
he allowed all people to go their own
-- --
way.
17 But he has always given evidence
of his existence by the good
things he does: he gives you rain
from heaven and crops at the right
times; he gives you food and fills
your hearts with happiness.”
18 Even
with these words the apostles could
hardly keep the crowd from offering
a sacrifice to them.
19 Some Jews came from Antioch
in Pisidia and from Iconium; they
won the crowds over to their side,
stoned Paul and dragged him out of
the town, thinking that he was dead.
20 But when the believers gathered
around him, he got up and went
back into the town. The next day he
and Barnabas went to Derbe.
The Return to Antioch in Syria
21 Paul and Barnabas preached the
Good News in Derbe and won many
disciples. Then they went back to
Lystra, to Iconium, and on to Antioch
in Pisidia.
22 They strengthened
the believers and encouraged them
to remain true to the faith. “We
must pass through many troubles to
enter the Kingdom of God,” they
taught.
23 In each church they appointed
elders, and with prayers and
fasting they commended them to the
Lord, in whom they had put their
trust.
24 After going through the territory
of Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia.
25 There they preached the message
in Perga and then went to Attalia,
26 and from there they sailed back to
Antioch, the place where they had
been commended to the care of
God's grace for the work they had
now completed.
27 When they arrived in Antioch,
they gathered the people of the
church together and told them about
all that God had done with them
and how he had opened the way for
the Gentiles to believe.
28 And
they stayed a long time there with
the believers.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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