Acts 14:17-27

17 Yet ¹he did not leave himself without witness, for he ²did good by ³giving you rains from heaven and ⁴fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with ⁵food and ⁶gladness. ”

18 Even with these words they scarcely restrained the people from offering sacrifice to them.

Paul Stoned at Lystra

19 ⁷But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, ⁸they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

20 But when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and entered the city, and on the next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.

21 When they had preached the gospel to that city and had ⁹made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch,

22 ¹⁰strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them ¹¹to continue in ¹²the faith, and saying that ¹³through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.

23 And when they had ¹⁴appointed ¹⁵elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting ¹⁶they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

Paul and Barnabas Return to Antioch in Syria

24 Then they passed through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia.

25 And when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia,

26 and from there they sailed to Antioch, ¹⁷where they had been ¹⁸commended to the grace of God for the work that they had fulfilled.

27 And when they arrived and gathered the church together, ¹⁹they declared all that God had done with them, and ²⁰how he had ²¹opened ²²a door of faith to the Gentiles.