Acts 14:17-28

English Standard Version

¹⁷ Yet ^(A)he did not leave himself without witness, for he ^(B)did good by ^(C)giving you rains from heaven and ^(D)fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with ^(E)food and ^(F)gladness.” ¹⁸ Even with these words they scarcely restrained the people from offering sacrifice to them.

Paul Stoned at Lystra

^19 (G)But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, ^(H)they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. ²⁰ But when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and entered the city, and on the next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe. ²¹ When they had preached the gospel to that city and had ^(I)made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, ^22 (J)strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them ^(K)to continue in ^(L)the faith, and saying that ^(M)through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God. ²³ And when they had ^(N)appointed ^(O)elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting ^(P)they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

Paul and Barnabas Return to Antioch in Syria

²⁴ Then they passed through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia. ²⁵ And when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia, ²⁶ and from there they sailed to Antioch, ^(Q)where they had been ^(R)commended to the grace of God for the work that they had fulfilled. ²⁷ And when they arrived and gathered the church together, ^(S)they declared all that God had done with them, and ^(T)how he had ^(U)opened ^(V)a door of faith to the Gentiles. ²⁸ And they remained no little time with the disciples.