1 Now in Iconium they went together to the Synagogue of the Jews and gave such teaching that a great number of Jews and Greeks had faith.
2 But those Jews who had not the faith, made the minds of the Gentiles bitter against the brothers.
3 So they kept there for a long time, taking heart in the Lord, who gave witness to the word of his grace by causing signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
4 But there was a division among the people of the town; some were on the side of the Jews and some on the side of the Apostles.
5 And when a violent attempt was made by the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, to make an attack on them and have them stoned,
6 Having got news of it, they went in flight to the towns of Lycaonia, Lystra, and Derbe, and the country round about:
7 And went on preaching the good news there.
8 And at Lystra there was a certain man, who from birth had been without the use of his feet, never having had the power of walking.
9 This man was giving ear to the preaching of Paul, who, looking at him, and seeing that he had faith to be made well,
10 Said in a loud voice, Get up on your feet. And, jumping up, he went walking about.
11 And when the people saw what Paul had done, they said in a loud voice, in the language of Lycaonia, The gods have come down to us in the form of men.
12 And they gave the name of Jupiter to Barnabas, and to Paul that of Mercury, because he was the chief talker.
13 And the priest of the image of Jupiter, which was before the town, took oxen and flowers to the doors of the town, and was about to make an offering with the people.
14 But when this came to the ears of the Apostles, Paul and Barnabas, they went running out among the people, parting their clothing, and crying out,
15 Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:
16 Who in the past let all nations go in the ways which seemed good to them.
17 But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.
18 And even with these words, it was hard for them to keep the people from making an offering to them.
19 But some Jews came to that place from Antioch and Iconium, and got control over the people; and after stoning Paul, they had him pulled out of the town, taking him for dead.
20 But when the disciples came round him, he got up and went into the town: and the day after he went away with Barnabas to Derbe.
21 And having made a number of disciples through the preaching of the good news in that town, they went back to Lystra and Iconium and Antioch,
22 Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.
23 And when they had made selection of some to be rulers in every church, and had given themselves to prayer and kept themselves from food, they put them into the care of the Lord in whom they had faith.
24 And they went through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia.
25 And, after preaching the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia;
26 And from there they went by ship to Antioch, where they had been handed over to the grace of God for the work which they had not done.
27 And when they came there, and had got the church together, they gave them an account of all the things which God had done through them, and how he had made open a door of faith to the Gentiles.
28 And they were with the disciples there for a long time.
1 Em Icônio, Paulo e Barnabé, como de costume, foram à sinagoga judaica. Ali falaram de tal modo que veio a crer grande multidão de judeus e gentios.
2 Mas os judeus que se tinham recusado a crer incitaram os gentios e irritaram-lhes os ânimos contra os irmãos.
3 Paulo e Barnabé passaram bastante tempo ali, falando corajosamente do Senhor, que confirmava a mensagem de sua graça realizando sinais e maravilhas pelas mãos deles.
4 O povo da cidade ficou dividido: alguns estavam a favor dos judeus, outros a favor dos apóstolos.
5 Formou-se uma conspiração de gentios e judeus, juntamente com os seus líderes, para maltratá-los e apedrejá-los.
6 Quando eles souberam disso, fugiram para as cidades licaônicas de Listra e Derbe, e seus arredores,
7 onde continuaram a pregar as boas novas.
8 Em Listra havia um homem paralítico dos pés, aleijado desde o nascimento, que vivia ali sentado e nunca tinha andado.
9 Ele ouvira Paulo falar. Quando Paulo olhou diretamente para ele e viu que o homem tinha fé para ser curado,
10 disse em alta voz: "Levante-se! Fique de pé! " Com isso, o homem deu um salto e começou a andar.
11 Ao ver o que Paulo fizera, a multidão começou a gritar em língua licaônica: "Os deuses desceram até nós em forma humana! "
12 A Barnabé chamavam Zeus e a Paulo Hermes, porque era ele quem trazia a palavra.
13 O sacerdote de Zeus, cujo templo ficava diante da cidade, trouxe bois e coroas de flores à porta da cidade, porque ele e a multidão queriam oferecer-lhes sacrifícios.
14 Ouvindo isso, os apóstolos Barnabé e Paulo rasgaram as roupas e correram para o meio da multidão, gritando:
15 "Homens, por que vocês estão fazendo isso? Nós também somos humanos como vocês. Estamos trazendo boas novas para vocês, dizendo-lhes que se afastem dessas coisas vãs e se voltem para o Deus vivo, que fez o céu, a terra, o mar e tudo o que neles há.
16 No passado ele permitiu que todas as nações seguissem os seus próprios caminhos.
17 Contudo, não ficou sem testemunho: mostrou sua bondade, dando-lhes chuva do céu e colheitas no tempo certo, concedendo-lhes sustento com fartura e enchendo de alegria os seus corações".
18 Apesar dessas palavras, eles tiveram dificuldade para impedir que a multidão lhes oferecesse sacrifícios.
19 Então alguns judeus chegaram de Antioquia e de Icônio e mudaram o ânimo das multidões. Apedrejaram Paulo e o arrastaram para fora da cidade, pensando que estivesse morto.
20 Mas quando os discípulos se ajuntaram em volta de Paulo, ele se levantou e voltou à cidade. No dia seguinte, ele e Barnabé partiram para Derbe.
21 Eles pregaram as boas novas naquela cidade e fizeram muitos discípulos. Então voltaram para Listra, Icônio e Antioquia,
22 fortalecendo os discípulos e encorajando-os a permanecer na fé, dizendo: "É necessário que passemos por muitas tribulações para entrarmos no Reino de Deus".
23 Paulo e Barnabé designaram-lhes presbíteros em cada igreja; tendo orado e jejuado, eles os encomendaram ao Senhor, em quem haviam confiado.
24 Passando pela Pisídia, chegaram à Panfília
25 e, tendo pregado a palavra em Perge, desceram para Atália.
26 De Atália navegaram de volta a Antioquia, onde tinham sido recomendados à graça de Deus para a missão que agora haviam completado.
27 Chegando ali, reuniram a igreja e relataram tudo o que Deus tinha feito por meio deles e como abrira a porta da fé aos gentios.
28 E ficaram ali muito tempo com os discípulos.