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to them the next sabbath.
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Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and
religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue
in the grace of God.
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And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.
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But
when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which
were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
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Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and
said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put
it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
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For
so hath the Lord commanded us,
saying,
I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou
shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.
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And when the Gentiles heard this, they were
glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
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And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.
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But the Jews stirred up the
devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul
and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
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But they shook off the dust of their feet
against them, and came unto Iconium.
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And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy
Ghost.
CHAPTER 14
And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and
so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.
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But the
unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.
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Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word
of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
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But the multitude of the
city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
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And when there was an
assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use
them
despitefully,
and to stone them,
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They were ware of
it,
and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and
unto the region that lieth round about:
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And there they preached the gospel.
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And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s
womb, who never had walked:
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The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and
perceiving that he had faith to be healed,
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Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And
he leaped and walked.
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And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices,
saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.
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And
they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.
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Then the
priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would
have done sacrifice with the people.
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Which
when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard
of,
they
rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out,
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And saying, Sirs, why do ye these
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