A   And it fortuned in Iconi&ubar;, that they went both together into þe; synagoge of the Iewes, and so spake, that a greate multytude both of the Iewes and also of þe; Grekes beleued. But þe; vnbeleuyng Iewes, steryd vp, and vnquieted the myndes of the gentyls agaynste the brethren. Longe tyme abode they there, and quyt th&ebar; selues boldly with the helpe of the Lord, which gaue testimony vnto the worde of his grace, ∧ ^note gra&ubar;ted sygnes and wondres to be done by their handes. But the multitude of the cytie was deuyded: and parte helde with the Iewes, ∧ parte with the Apostles.

When ther was an assaute made both of the Gentyles ∧ also of the Iewes with their rulers, to do them violence, and to stone them they were ware of it, &abar;d ^note fled vnto Lystra and Derba, cyties of Lycaonia, &abar;d vnto the regyon that lyeth ronnde aboute, and there preached the Gospell. (and all the multitude was moued at theyr doctryne, but Paul and Barnabas taryed styll at Lystra.) And ther sate a certayne man at Lystra weake in hys fete, beynge ^note creple from his mothers wombe, &abar;d neuer had walked. The same hearde Paul preache. Which beholdynge hym, and perceauynge that he had fayth to be whole, sayd with a loude voyce: st&abar;de vpryght on thy fete: And ^note he stert vp, and walked. And wh&ebar; the people sawe what Paul had done, they lyfte vp their voyces, sayinge in the speache of Lycaonia: ^note Goddes are come downe to vs in the lyknes of men. And they called Barnabas Iupiter, &abar;d Paul Mercurius, because he was the preacher, Then Iupiters preste, which dwelt before their cytie, brought oxen and garlandes vnto the porche, and wolde haue done sacryfice with the people.

C   Which when the Apostles, Barnabas &abar;d Paul herde of, they rent their clothes, and r&abar; in amonge the people, cryinge and sayinge: syrs why do ye this? ^noteWe are mortall men like vnto you, and preache vnto you, that ye shulde turne from these vanyties vnto the lyuinge God, ^note which made heauen and erth and the see and all thynges that are ther in: the which in tymes past suffred all nacyons to walcke in theyr awne wayes. ^noteNeuerthelesse, he left not hym selfe withoute wytnes, in that he shewed hys beuefytes fr&obar; heauen, in geuynge vs rayne and frutefull ceasons, fyllyng oure hertes with fode &abar;d gladnes. And with these sayinges, sease refrayned they the people, that they had not done sacryfyce vnto them.

Thyther came certayne Iewes from Antioche and Iconium: which (whan they had obtayned the peoples consent ^note and had stoned Paul) drew him out of the cytie, suppoge he had bene deed. D   Howbeit as þe; disciples stode rounde about him, he arose vp, and came into the cytie. And the nexte daye he departed with Barnabas to Derba. And wh&abar; they had preached to that cytie, ∧ had taught many, they returned agayne to Lystra, and to Iconium and Antioche, and strengthed þe; discyples soules agayne, and ^note exhorted th&ebar; to contynue in the fayth affirmynge that we must ^note thorowe moche tribulacyon &ebar;ntre into the kyngdome of God. And wh&abar; they had ordened them elders by eleccyon in euery c&obar;gregacyon, and had prayde and fasted, they commended them to the Lorde on wh&obar; they beleued. And whan they had gone thorowe out Pisidia, they came to Pamphilia, ∧ wh&abar; they had preached the worde in Perga, they desc&ebar;ded into the cyte Attalia, and thence departed by shyppe to Antioche from whence they were committed vnto the grace of God to þe; worcke which they fulfylled. When they were come, and had gathered the congregacion together, they rehersed all that God had doue by them &abar;d how he had opened the dore of fayth vnto the Gentyls. And there they abode longe tyme with the discyples.

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