Hechos 14:11

11 Entonces la multitud, visto lo que Pablo había hecho, alzaron la voz, diciendo en lengua licaónica: Dioses semejantes a hombres han descendido a nosotros.

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 Este oyó hablar a Pablo; el cual, como puso los ojos en él, y vio que tenía fe para ser sanado,

10 dijo a gran voz: Levántate derecho sobre tus pies. Y saltó, y anduvo.

11 Entonces la multitud, visto lo que Pablo había hecho, alzaron la voz, diciendo en lengua licaónica: Dioses semejantes a hombres han descendido a nosotros.

12 Y a Bernabé llamaban Júpiter, y a Pablo, Mercurio, porque era el que llevaba la palabra.

13 Y el sacerdote de Júpiter, que estaba delante de la ciudad de ellos, trayendo toros y guirnaldas delante de las puertas, quería con el pueblo sacrificarles.