Acts 14:19
17 Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”
18 Even with these words, Paul and Barnabas could hardly stop the crowds from sacrificing to them.
Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, presuming he was dead.
20 But after the disciples had gathered around him, he got up and went back into the city. And the next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.
21 They preached the gospel to that city and made many disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
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- BSB
- Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, presuming he was dead.
- KJV
- And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
- WEB
- But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
- ASV
- But there came Jews thither from Antioch and Iconium: and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
- DARBY
- But there came Jews from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds and stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing him to have died.
- BLB
- But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, and having stoned Paul, they dragged [him] outside the city, supposing him to have died.
- ÅB
- Men det kom jøder til fra Antiokia og Ikonium og overtalte folket, og de steinet Paulus og slepte ham utenfor byen, da de trodde at han var død;
- OTB
- Da kom noen jøder fra Antiokia og Ikonium, og etter å ha overtalt folkemengdene, steinet de Paulus og dro ham ut av byen, i den tro at han var død.
- B1930
- Men det kom jøder til fra Antiokia og Ikonium og overtalte folket, og de stenet Paulus og slepte ham utenfor byen, da de trodde at han var død;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Corinthians 11:25
Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.
Read in context2 Timothy 3:11
my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
Read in contextActs 13:50–51
The Jews, however, incited the religious women of prominence and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their district.
Read in contextActs 13:45
But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.
Read in contextActs 14:5
But when the Gentiles and Jews, together with their rulers, set out to mistreat and stone them,
Read in context2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.
Read in contextActs 7:58
They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Read in contextHebrews 13:12–13
And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.
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