1 E aconteceu que em Icônio entraram juntos na sinagoga dos judeus, e falaram de tal modo que creu uma grande multidão, não só de judeus mas de gregos.
2 Mas os judeus incrédulos incitaram e irritaram, contra os irmãos, os ânimos dos gentios.
3 Detiveram-se, pois, muito tempo, falando ousadamente acerca do Senhor, o qual dava testemunho à palavra da sua graça, permitindo que por suas mãos se fizessem sinais e prodígios.
4 E dividiu-se a multidão da cidade; e uns eram pelos judeus, e outros pelos apóstolos.
5 E havendo um motim, tanto dos judeus como dos gentios, com os seus principais, para os insultarem e apedrejarem,
6 Sabendo-o eles, fugiram para Listra e Derbe, cidades de Licaônia, e para a província circunvizinha;
7 E ali pregavam o evangelho.
8 E estava assentado em Listra certo homem leso dos pés, coxo desde o ventre de sua mãe, o qual nunca tinha andado.
9 Este ouviu falar Paulo, que, fixando nele os olhos, e vendo que tinha fé para ser curado,
10 Disse em voz alta: Levanta-te direito sobre teus pés. E ele saltou e andou.
11 E as multidões, vendo o que Paulo fizera, levantaram a sua voz, dizendo em língua licaônica: Fizeram-se os deuses semelhantes aos homens, e desceram até nós.
12 E chamavam Júpiter a Barnabé, e Mercúrio a Paulo; porque este era o que falava.
13 E o sacerdote de Júpiter, cujo templo estava em frente da cidade, trazendo para a entrada da porta touros e grinaldas, queria com a multidão sacrificar-lhes.
14 Ouvindo, porém, isto os apóstolos Barnabé e Paulo, rasgaram as suas vestes, e saltaram para o meio da multidão, clamando,
15 E dizendo: Senhores, por que fazeis essas coisas? Nós também somos homens como vós, sujeitos às mesmas paixões, e vos anunciamos que vos convertais dessas vaidades ao Deus vivo, que fez o céu, e a terra, o mar, e tudo quanto há neles;
16 O qual nos tempos passados deixou andar todas as nações em seus próprios caminhos.
17 E contudo, não se deixou a si mesmo sem testemunho, beneficiando-vos lá do céu, dando-vos chuvas e tempos frutíferos, enchendo de mantimento e de alegria os vossos corações.
18 E, dizendo isto, com dificuldade impediram que as multidões lhes sacrificassem.
19 Sobrevieram, porém, uns judeus de Antioquia e de Icônio que, tendo convencido a multidão, apedrejaram a Paulo e o arrastaram para fora da cidade, cuidando que estava morto.
20 Mas, rodeando-o os discípulos, levantou-se, e entrou na cidade, e no dia seguinte saiu com Barnabé para Derbe.
21 E, tendo anunciado o evangelho naquela cidade e feito muitos discípulos, voltaram para Listra, e Icônio e Antioquia,
22 Confirmando os ânimos dos discípulos, exortando-os a permanecer na fé, pois que por muitas tribulações nos importa entrar no reino de Deus.
23 E, havendo-lhes, por comum consentimento, eleito anciãos em cada igreja, orando com jejuns, os encomendaram ao Senhor em quem haviam crido.
24 Passando depois por Pisídia, dirigiram-se a Panfília.
25 E, tendo anunciado a palavra em Perge, desceram a Atália.
26 E dali navegaram para Antioquia, de onde tinham sido encomendados à graça de Deus para a obra que já haviam cumprido.
27 E, quando chegaram e reuniram a igreja, relataram quão grandes coisas Deus fizera por eles, e como abrira aos gentios a porta da fé.
28 E ficaram ali não pouco tempo com os discípulos.
1 Now in Iconium they went together to the Synagogue of the Jews and gave such teaching that a great number of Jews and Greeks had faith.
2 But those Jews who had not the faith, made the minds of the Gentiles bitter against the brothers.
3 So they kept there for a long time, taking heart in the Lord, who gave witness to the word of his grace by causing signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
4 But there was a division among the people of the town; some were on the side of the Jews and some on the side of the Apostles.
5 And when a violent attempt was made by the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, to make an attack on them and have them stoned,
6 Having got news of it, they went in flight to the towns of Lycaonia, Lystra, and Derbe, and the country round about:
7 And went on preaching the good news there.
8 And at Lystra there was a certain man, who from birth had been without the use of his feet, never having had the power of walking.
9 This man was giving ear to the preaching of Paul, who, looking at him, and seeing that he had faith to be made well,
10 Said in a loud voice, Get up on your feet. And, jumping up, he went walking about.
11 And when the people saw what Paul had done, they said in a loud voice, in the language of Lycaonia, The gods have come down to us in the form of men.
12 And they gave the name of Jupiter to Barnabas, and to Paul that of Mercury, because he was the chief talker.
13 And the priest of the image of Jupiter, which was before the town, took oxen and flowers to the doors of the town, and was about to make an offering with the people.
14 But when this came to the ears of the Apostles, Paul and Barnabas, they went running out among the people, parting their clothing, and crying out,
15 Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:
16 Who in the past let all nations go in the ways which seemed good to them.
17 But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.
18 And even with these words, it was hard for them to keep the people from making an offering to them.
19 But some Jews came to that place from Antioch and Iconium, and got control over the people; and after stoning Paul, they had him pulled out of the town, taking him for dead.
20 But when the disciples came round him, he got up and went into the town: and the day after he went away with Barnabas to Derbe.
21 And having made a number of disciples through the preaching of the good news in that town, they went back to Lystra and Iconium and Antioch,
22 Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.
23 And when they had made selection of some to be rulers in every church, and had given themselves to prayer and kept themselves from food, they put them into the care of the Lord in whom they had faith.
24 And they went through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia.
25 And, after preaching the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia;
26 And from there they went by ship to Antioch, where they had been handed over to the grace of God for the work which they had not done.
27 And when they came there, and had got the church together, they gave them an account of all the things which God had done through them, and how he had made open a door of faith to the Gentiles.
28 And they were with the disciples there for a long time.