Acts 14:8-18

Miracle and Mistaken Identity in Lystra

Acts 14:8-18

Miracle and Mistaken Identity in Lystra

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And a certain man in Lystra, impotent in the feet, was sitting, being lame from the womb of his mother--who never had walked,
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this one was hearing Paul speaking, who, having stedfastly beheld him, and having seen that he hath faith to be saved,
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said with a loud voice, `Stand up on thy feet upright;' and he was springing and walking,
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and the multitudes having seen what Paul did, did lift up their voice, in the speech of Lycaonia, saying, `The gods, having become like men, did come down unto us;'
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they were calling also Barnabas Zeus, and Paul Hermes, since he was the leader in speaking.
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And the priest of the Zeus that is before their city, oxen and garlands unto the porches having brought, with the multitudes did wish to sacrifice,
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and having heard, the apostles Barnabas and Paul, having rent their garments, did spring into the multitude, crying
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and saying, `Men, why these things do ye? and we are men like-affected with you, proclaiming good news to you, from these vanities to turn unto the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all the things in them;
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who in the past generations did suffer all the nations to go on in their ways,
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though, indeed, without witness He did not leave himself, doing good--from heaven giving rains to us, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness;'
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and these things saying, scarcely did they restrain the multitudes from sacrificing to them.
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Where else Scripture says this.

  • Acts 17:30

    the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,
    from verse 15

  • Romans 1:20

    for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead--to their being inexcusable;
    from verse 15

  • Romans 1:19

    Because that which is known of God is manifest among them, for God did manifest it to them,
    from verse 17

  • 1 Corinthians 8:4

    Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;
    from verse 15

  • Acts 10:26

    and Peter raised him, saying, `Stand up; I also myself am a man;'
    from verse 15

  • James 5:17

    Elijah was a man like affected as we, and with prayer he did pray--not to rain, and it did not rain upon the land three years and six months;
    from verse 15

  • Acts 3:2

    and a certain man, being lame from the womb of his mother, was being carried, whom they were laying every day at the gate of the temple, called Beautiful, to ask a kindness from those entering into the temple,
    from verse 8

  • 1 Samuel 12:21

    and ye do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they are vain,
    from verse 15

  • Job 5:10

    Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places.
    from verse 17

  • Joel 2:23

    And ye sons of Zion, joy and rejoice, In Jehovah your God, For He hath given to you the Teacher for righteousness, And causeth to come down to you a shower, Sprinkling and gathered--in the beginning.
    from verse 17

  • Acts 28:6

    and they were expecting him to be about to be inflamed, or to fall down suddenly dead, and they, expecting it a long time, and seeing nothing uncommon happening to him, changing their minds, said he was a god.
    from verse 11

  • Psalms 81:12

    And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.
    from verse 16
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