escape into the Lycaonian towns of Lystra and Derbe,
and the neighbouring country.
014:007 And there they continued to tell the Good News.
014:008 Now a man who had no power in his feet used to sit in the streets
of Lystra. He had been lame from his birth and had never walked.
014:009 After this man had listened to one of Paul's sermons, the Apostle,
looking steadily at him and perceiving that he had faith
to be cured,
014:010 said in a loud voice, "Stand upright upon your feet!"
014:011 So he sprang up and began to walk about. Then the crowds,
seeing what Paul had done, rent the air with their shouts
in the Lycaonian language, saying, "The gods have assumed
human form and have come down to us."
014:012 They called Barnabas `Zeus,' and Paul, as being the
principal speaker, `Hermes.'
014:013 And the priest of Zeus--the temple of Zeus being at the entrance
to the city--brought bullocks and garlands to the gates,
and in company with the crowd was intending to offer
sacrifices to them.
014:014 But the Apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it; and tearing
their clothes they rushed out into the middle of the crowd,
exclaiming, "Sirs, why are you doing all this?
014:015 We also are but men, with natures kindred to your own;
and we bring you the Good News that you are to turn from these
unreal things, to worship the ever-living God, the Creator
of earth and sky and sea and of everything that is in them.
014:016 In times gone by He allowed all the nations to go their own ways;
014:017 and yet by His beneficence He has not left His existence unattested--
His beneficence, I mean, in sending you rain from Heaven and
fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and joyfulness."