Growth and Persecution in Iconium
1 The same thing happened in Iconium; they entered the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.
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But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up and poisoned the minds of the Gentiles against the brothers.
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So they stayed there for some time and spoke boldly, in reliance on the Lord, who testified to the message of His grace by granting that signs and wonders be performed through them.
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But the people of the city were divided, some siding with the Jews and some with the apostles.
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When an attempt was made by both the Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to assault and stone them,
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they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian towns called Lystra and Derbe, and to the surrounding countryside.
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And there they kept evangelizing.