LESSON
63
PAUL STONED IN LYSTRA
Acts 14:19-28 New Living Translation (NLT)
19 Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium
and won the crowds to their side. They stoned Paul and dragged him out of town,
thinking he was dead. 20 But as the Believers[a] gathered around him, he got up and
went back into the town. The next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe. 21 After preaching the Good News in
Derbe and making many disciples, Paul and Barnabas returned to Lystra, Iconium,
and Antioch of Pisidia, 22 where they strengthened the believers. They
encouraged them to continue in the faith, reminding them that we must suffer
many hardships to enter the Kingdom of God. 23 Paul and Barnabas also appointed
elders in every church. With prayer and fasting, they turned the elders over to
the care of the Lord, in whom they had put their trust. 24 Then they traveled back through Pisidia to
Pamphylia.25 They preached the word in Perga,
then went down to Attalia. 26 Finally, they returned by ship
to Antioch of Syria, where their journey had begun. The believers there had
entrusted them to the grace of God to do the work they had now completed. 27 Upon arriving in Antioch, they called the
church together and reported everything God had done through them and how he
had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles, too. 28 And they stayed there with the believers for a
long time.
