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The people of the city were divided; some sided with the Jews, others with the apostles.
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There was a plot afoot among both Gentiles and Jews, together with their leaders, to mistreat them and stone them.
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But they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding country,
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where they continued to preach the gospel.
In Lystra and Derbe
8 In Lystra there sat a man who was lame. He had been that way from birth and had never walked.
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He listened to Paul as he was speaking. Paul looked directly at him, saw that he had faith to be healed
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and called out, “Stand up on your feet!” At that, the man jumped up and began to walk.
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When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in human form!”
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Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes because he was the chief speaker.
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The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates because he and the crowd wanted to offer sacrifices to them.
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But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of this, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting: