Acts 14 (NET)

Acts 14:1¹The same thing happened in Iconium when Paul and Barnabas went into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a large group of both Jews and Greeks believed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:2²But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:3³So they stayed there for a considerable time, speaking out courageously for the Lord, who testified to the message of his grace, granting miraculous signs and wonders to be performed through their hands.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:4⁴But the population of the city was divided; some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:5⁵When both the Gentiles and the Jews (together with their rulers) made an attempt to mistreat them and stone them,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:6⁶Paul and Barnabas learned about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and the surrounding region.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:7⁷There they continued to proclaim the good news.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:8⁸In Lystra sat a man who could not use his feet, lame from birth, who had never walked.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:9⁹This man was listening to Paul as he was speaking. When Paul stared intently at him and saw he had faith to be healed,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:10¹⁰he said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet.” And the man leaped up and began walking.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:11¹¹So when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in human form!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:12¹²They began to call Barnabas Zeus and Paul Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:13¹³The priest of the temple of Zeus, located just outside the city, brought bulls and garlands to the city gates; he and the crowds wanted to offer sacrifices to them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:14¹⁴But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard about it, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:15¹⁵“Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:16¹⁶In past generations he allowed all the nations to go their own ways,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:17¹⁷yet he did not leave himself without a witness by doing good, by giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying you with food and your hearts with joy.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:18¹⁸Even by saying these things, they scarcely persuaded the crowds not to offer sacrifice to them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:19¹⁹But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and after winning the crowds over, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, presuming him to be dead.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:20²⁰But after the disciples had surrounded him, he got up and went back into the city. On the next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:21²¹After they had proclaimed the good news in that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, to Iconium, and to Antioch.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:22²²They strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, “We must enter the kingdom of God through many persecutions.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:23²³When they had appointed elders for them in the various churches, with prayer and fasting they entrusted them to the protection of the Lord in whom they had believed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:24²⁴Then they passed through Pisidia and came into Pamphylia,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:25²⁵and when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:26²⁶From there they sailed back to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:27²⁷When they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported all the things God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith for the Gentiles.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 14:28²⁸So they spent considerable time with the disciples.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions