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the nations. 13:47 For thus has commanded us the Lord: I have set thee for a light of nations to be thee for salvation to the end of the earth. 48 And hearing the nations rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and believed as many as were having been disposed to life eternal; 49 and was carried through the word of the Lord through all the country. 50 But the Jews urged on the

worshipping women honourable and the chief men of the city, and raised up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from the borders of them. 51 But they shaking off the dust of their feet on them came to Iconium, 52 and the disciples were filled of with joy and of with Spirit Holy.

4. . Perception to escape

14:1-6

The disobeying Jews

Crowd influence

14:1 Now it happened in Iconium together to enter them into the synagogue of the Jews and to speak so as to believe both of Jews and of Greeks a much great multitude. 2 But the disobeying Jews excited and embittered the minds of the nations against the brother. 3 A considerable therefore time they continued speaking boldly on the Lord witnessing to the word of the grace of

him, giving signs and wonders to happen through the hands of them. 4 But was divided the multitude of the city, and some were with the Jews, but others with the apostles. 5 And when there was a rush of the nations both and of Jew with the rulers of them to insult and to stone them, 6 perceiving they escaped to the cities of Lycaonia Lystra and Derbe and the neighbourhood;

5. . Stress on humanness

14:7-18

Crowds

Adulation

14:7 and there evangelising they were. 8 And a certain man impotent in Lystra in the feet sat, lame from the womb of the mother of him who never walked. 9 This man heard Paul speaking: who gazing at him and seeing that he has faith to be healed. 10 said with a voice: Stand up on the feet of the erect. And he leaped up and walked. 11 And the crowds seeing what did Paul lifted up the voice of them in Lycaonian saying: the gods made like men came down to us, 12 and they called Barnabas Zeus, and Paul Hermes, since he was the leader of the discourse. 13 And the priest of Zeus being before the city, bulls and garlands to the gates bringing with the crowds wished to sacrifice.

14 But hearing the apostles Barnabas and Paul, rending the garments of themselves rushed out into crowd, crying out: 15 and saying: Men why these things do ye? also we of like nature are to you men, preaching to you from these vanities to turn to God a living, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things in them: 16 who in the having passed generations allowed all the nations to go in the ways of them; 17 and yet not unwitnessed himself left doing good, from heaven us rain giving and times fruit-bearing, filling of with food and of with glad ess the hearts of us. 18 And these things saying scarcely they restrained the crowds not to sacrifice to them.