Acts 14:5
3 So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable time there, speaking boldly for the Lord, who affirmed the message of His grace by enabling them to perform signs and wonders.
4 The people of the city were divided. Some sided with the Jews, and others with the apostles.
But when the Gentiles and Jews, together with their rulers, set out to mistreat and stone them,
6 they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding region,
7 where they continued to preach the gospel.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- But when the Gentiles and Jews, together with their rulers, set out to mistreat and stone them,
- KJV
- 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,
- WEB
- When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,
- ASV
- And when there was made an onset both of the Gentiles and of the Jews with their rulers, to treat them shamefully and to stone them,
- DARBY
- And when an assault was making, both of [those of] the nations and [the] Jews with their rulers, to use [them] ill and stone them,
- BLB
- And when there was a rush of both the Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to mistreat and to stone them,
- ÅB
- Men da nå både hedningene og jødene med deres styresmenn stormet fram og ville mishandle dem og steine dem,
- OTB
- Da det ble lagt en plan av både hedninger og jøder, sammen med deres ledere, om å mishandle og steine dem,
- B1930
- Men da nu både hedningene og jødene med deres styresmenn stormet frem og vilde mishandle dem og stene dem,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Acts 14:19
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.
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 17:5
The Jews, however, became jealous. So they brought in some troublemakers from the marketplace, formed a mob, and sent the city into an uproar. They raided Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas, hoping to bring them out to the people.
Read in contextActs 4:25–29
You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
Read in contextMatthew 5:44
But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Read in contextPsalms 2:1–3
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
Read in contextPsalms 83:5
For with one mind they plot together, they form an alliance against You—
Read in contextLuke 6:28
bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
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