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Acts 14 - Read-Along · The Five Minute Bible Podcast

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  Acts chapter 14. At Iconium they entered the
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  synagogue of the Jews together, and spoke in such a manner that
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  a large number of people believed both of Jews and of
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  Greeks. But the Jews who disbelieved
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  stirred up the minds of the Gentiles, and embittered them
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  against the brethren. Therefore they spent a long time
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  there, speaking boldly, with reliance upon the Lord, who was
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  testifying to the word of His grace, granting that signs and
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  wonders be done by their hands. But the people of the city were
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  divided, and some sided with the Jews and some of the apostles.
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  And when an attempt was made by both the Gentiles and the Jews
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  with their rulers to mistreat and to stone them, they became
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  aware of it and fled to the cities of Laconia, Lystra and
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  Derby, and the surrounding region.
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  And there they continued to preach the gospel.
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  At Lystra a man was sitting who had no strength in his feet,
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  lame from his mother's womb, who had never walked.
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  This man was listening to Paul as he spoke, who, when he had
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  fixed his gaze on him and had seen that he had faith to be
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  made well, said with a loud voice.
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  Stand upright on your feet. And he leaped up and began to
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  walk. When the crowd saw what Paul had
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  done, they raised their voice, saying in the Laconian language,
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  The gods have become like men and have come down to us.
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  They began calling Barnabas, Zeus and Paul Hermes because he
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  was the chief speaker. The priest of Zeus, whose temple
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  was just outside the city, brought oxen and garlands to the
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  gates and wanted to offer sacrifice with the crowds.
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  But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore
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  their robes and rushed out into the crowd, crying out and
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  saying, Men, why are you doing these things?
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  We are also men of the same nature as you, and preach the
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  gospel to you, that you should turn from these vain things to a
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  living God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and
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  all that is in them. In the generations gone by He
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  permitted all the nations to go their own ways, and yet He did
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  not leave himself without witness in that He did good, and
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  gave you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying
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  your hearts with food and gladness.
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  Even saying these things with difficulty, they restrained the
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  crowds from offering sacrifice to them.
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  But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having won over the
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  crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city,
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  supposing him to be dead. But while the disciples stood
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  around him, he got up and entered the city.
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  The next day he went away with Barnabas to Derby.
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  After they had preached the gospel to that city and had made
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  many disciples, they returned to Lystra, to Iconium, and to
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  Antioch, strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging
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  them to continue in the faith, and saying through many
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  tribulations, we must enter the Kingdom of God.
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  When they had appointed elders for them in every church, having
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  prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in
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  whom they had believed. They passed through Pasidia and
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  came into Pamphylia. When they had spoken the word in
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  Purga, they went down to Italia. From there they sailed to
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  Antioch, from which they had been commended to the grace of
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  God for the work that they had accomplished.
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  When they had arrived and gathered the church together,
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  they began to report all the things that God had done with
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  them. Now He had opened a door of
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  faith to the Gentiles, and they spent a long time with the
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  disciples.