Miracle and Mistaken Identity in Lystra

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Nowe there sate a certaine man at Lystra, impotent in his feete, which was a creeple from his mothers wombe, who had neuer walked.

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He heard Paul speake: who beholding him, and perceiuing that he had faith to be healed,

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Said with a loude voyce, Stand vpright on thy feete. And he leaped vp, and walked.

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Then when the people sawe what Paul had done, they lift vp their voyces, saying in ye speach of Lycaonia, Gods are come downe to vs in the likenesse of men.

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And they called Barnabas, Iupiter: and Paul, Mercurius, because hee was the chiefe speaker.

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Then Iupiters priest, which was before their citie, brought bulles with garlands vnto the gates, and would haue sacrificed with the people.

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But when the Apostles, Barnabas and Paul heard it, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying,

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And saying, O men, why doe yee these things? We are euen men subiect to the like passions that yee be, and preache vnto you, that yee shoulde turne from these vaine things vnto the liuing God, which made heauen and earth, and the sea, and all things that in them are:

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Who in times past suffered all the Gentiles to walke in their owne waies.

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Neuerthelesse, hee left not him selfe without witnes, in that hee did good and gaue vs raine from heauen, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with foode, and gladnesse.

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And speaking these things, scarce appeased they the multitude, that they had not sacrificed vnto them.

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