KJ3 Literal Translation
Acts 14
1 Paul and Barnabas are persecuted. 8 At Lystra Paul heals a cripple, 19 and is stoned. 26 At Antioch, the disciples report what God had done.
1And it happened in Iconium, according to the same they entered into the synagogue of the Jews, and spoke thus, so that a large multitude of both Jews and Greeks came to believe.
2But the unbelieving Jews excited and embittered the souls of the nations against the brothers.
3Therefore, they stayed a considerable time, speaking boldly on the Lord, witnessing to the Word of His grace, and He giving miraculous signs and wonders to occur through their hands.
4But the multitude of the city was divided; and the ones were with the Jews, but the other ones with the apostles.
5And when a rush of the nations occurred, and both the Jews with their rulers came to treat shamefully and to stone them,
6perceiving it all, they fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the region around.
7And there they were preaching the gospel.
8And a certain man was sitting in Lystra, powerless in the feet, being lame from his mother’s womb, who had never walked.
9This one heard Paul speaking, who, looking intently at him, and seeing that he had faith to be cured,
10he said with a great voice, Stand up erect on your feet! And he leaped up and walked about.
11And seeing what Paul did, the crowd lifted up their voice in Lycaonian, saying, The gods have come down to us, becoming like men.
12And they called Barnabas, Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the one leading in the word.
13And the priest of Zeus being before their city, bringing bulls and garlands to the gates, he wished to sacrifice along with the crowds.
14But Paul and Barnabas, the apostles, hearing, tearing their garments, they leaped out into the crowd, crying out,
15and saying, Men, why do you do these things? We also are men of like feelings to you, preaching the gospel to you to turn you from these vain things to the living God, who “made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all the things in them,” Ex. 20:11
16who in the generations having passed allowed all the nations to go in their own ways.
17And yet He did not leave Himself without witness, doing good, giving rain and fruitful seasons to us from heaven, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
18And saying these things, they hardly settled down the crowds, that they not sacrifice to them.
19But Jews came there from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, and having stoned Paul, they dragged him outside the city, supposing him to have died.
20But the disciples surrounding him, arising he entered into the city. And on the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.
21And having preached the gospel to that city, and having made considerable disciples, they returned to Lystra and Iconium and Antioch,
22confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God.
23And having hand-picked elders for them in every assembly, having prayed with fastings, they committed them to the Lord into whom they had believed.
24And passing through Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia.
25And speaking the Word in Perga, they came down to Attalia,
26and from there they sailed away to Antioch, from where they were being given over to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.
27And arriving, and gathering the assembly, they reported as many things God did with them and that He opened a door of faith to the nations.
28And they remained there not a little time with the disciples.
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