Hechos 14:11

11 Al ver lo que Pablo había hecho, la gente comenzó a gritar en el idioma de Licaonia:—¡Los dioses han tomado forma humana y han venido a visitarnos!

Hechos 14:11 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 14:11

And when the people saw what Paul had done
In curing the lame man in so marvellous a manner, and concluding it to be a divine work, and what a mere creature could never perform:

they lift up their voices;
not in indignation and wrath, but as persons astonished:

saying in the speech of Lycaonia;
by which it should seem that Lystra was a city of Lycaonia, since the Lycaonian language was spoken in it; the Arabic version reads, "in their own tongue"; and the Syriac version, "in the dialect of the country"; very likely a dialect of the Greek tongue;

the gods are come down to us in the likeness of men;
they had a notion of deity, though a very wrong one; they thought there were more gods than one, and they imagined heaven to be the habitation of the gods; and that they sometimes descended on earth in human shape, as they supposed they now did.

Hechos 14:11 In-Context

9 escuchando a Pablo, quien al reparar en él y ver que tenía fe para ser sanado,

10 le ordenó con voz fuerte:—¡Ponte en pie y enderézate!El hombre dio un salto y empezó a caminar.

11 Al ver lo que Pablo había hecho, la gente comenzó a gritar en el idioma de Licaonia:—¡Los dioses han tomado forma humana y han venido a visitarnos!

12 A Bernabé lo llamaban Zeus, y a Pablo, Hermes, porque era el que dirigía la palabra.

13 El sacerdote de Zeus, el dios cuyo templo estaba a las afueras de la ciudad, llevó toros y guirnaldas a las puertas y, con toda la multitud, quería ofrecerles sacrificios.