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Acts 14 — Iconium, Lystra, and the return to Antioch — Greek text and reception

Saints Translation: Acts 1–28 [V2]

Each card preserves the Greek reading and its textual and reception notes. This source provides a Greek study edition; Hebrew counterparts and Hebrew–Greek classifications are not supplied.

Acts 14 — Iconium, Lystra, and the return to Antioch

Preaching and division in Iconium

Verse 14:1

Greek–English Translation

In Iconium they entered the Jewish synagogue together and spoke in such a way that a great multitude of both Jews and Greeks believed.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: Greeks is Hellēnes here, distinct from the Hellenists wording retained at 11:20.

Verse 14:2

Greek–English Translation

But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the Gentiles and embittered their minds against the brothers.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: Apeitheō conveys refusal or disobedience, not merely absence of information. The opponents are distinguished from the Jewish believers of 14:1.

Verse 14:3

Greek–English Translation

So they stayed a considerable time, speaking boldly in reliance on the Lord, who bore witness to the word of His grace by granting signs and wonders to take place through their hands.

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Verse 14:4

Greek–English Translation

The city’s multitude was divided: some sided with the Jews and others with the apostles.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: Apostles designates the missionaries in this scene; Barnabas and Paul are explicitly so called in 14:14.

Verse 14:5

Greek–English Translation

When an attempt was made by both Gentiles and Jews, together with their rulers, to mistreat and stone them,

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Verse 14:6

Greek–English Translation

they learned of it and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and the surrounding region.

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Verse 14:7

Greek–English Translation

There they continued proclaiming the good news.

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Healing and attempted sacrifice in Lystra

Verse 14:8

Greek–English Translation

In Lystra a man was sitting who had no strength in his feet, unable to walk from his mother’s womb; he had never walked.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: The congenital disability and repeated never walked are preserved, parallel to the earlier healing’s details without merging the two persons.

Verse 14:9

Greek–English Translation

He listened to Paul speaking. Paul looked intently at him and saw that he had faith to be made well,

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: Sōthēnai is the save/make-well verb in this healing context. Unlike 3:16, this sentence explicitly locates the faith in the man.

Verse 14:10

Greek–English Translation

and said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet.” He leaped up and began walking.

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Verse 14:11

Greek–English Translation

When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they raised their voice, saying in Lycaonian, “The gods have come down to us in human likeness.”

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: The crowd’s language is specifically named as Lycaonian. The identification is theirs, not the narrator’s.

Verse 14:12

Greek–English Translation

They called Barnabas Zeus and Paul Hermes, because he was the leading speaker.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: The Greek divine names Zeus and Hermes are retained, without replacing them with Roman counterparts.

Verse 14:13

Greek–English Translation

The priest of Zeus, whose shrine was before the city, brought bulls and garlands to the gates and wanted to offer sacrifice with the crowds.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: Whose shrine supplies the natural local sense of Zeus who was before the city; the precise site is not otherwise named. Bulls, garlands, and gates remain explicit.

Verse 14:14

Greek–English Translation

When the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard this, they tore their garments and rushed out into the crowd, crying out

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Verse 14:15

Greek–English Translation

and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We too are human beings, of the same nature as you. We proclaim good news to you: turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and the sea and everything in them.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: Homoiopatheis emphasizes their shared human condition, not divinity. These worthless things is the speakers’ description of the worship being offered.

Verse 14:16

Greek–English Translation

In past generations He allowed all the nations to go their own ways.

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Verse 14:17

Greek–English Translation

Yet He did not leave Himself without witness in doing good, giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: The selected pronouns are you and your. The unusual hearts filled with food and gladness is retained rather than dividing it into an unexpressed body-and-soul contrast.

Verse 14:18

Greek–English Translation

Even by saying these things, they scarcely stopped the crowds from sacrificing to them.

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Paul stoned and the disciples strengthened

Verse 14:19

Greek–English Translation

Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, persuaded the crowds, stoned Paul, and dragged him outside the city, supposing he was dead.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: Supposing he was dead reports their judgment; the narrator does not explicitly state a death and resurrection here.

Verse 14:20

Greek–English Translation

But when the disciples surrounded him, he rose and entered the city. The next day he went with Barnabas to Derbe.

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Verse 14:21

Greek–English Translation

After proclaiming the good news to that city and making many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

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Verse 14:22

Greek–English Translation

strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to remain in the faith, and saying, “Through many afflictions we must enter the kingdom of God.”

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: The shift to we in the final clause is preserved rather than converted to an impersonal maxim.

Verse 14:23

Greek–English Translation

They appointed elders for them in each Church and, after praying with fasting, entrusted them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: Cheirotoneō can historically involve choosing by a show of hands and also denotes appointment. Appointed preserves the action without specifying a voting or ordination procedure absent from this sentence. Elders are named in each Church; entrusted them may encompass the communities, not only the newly appointed elders.

Verse 14:24

Greek–English Translation

They passed through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia.

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Verse 14:25

Greek–English Translation

After speaking the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.

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Verse 14:26

Greek–English Translation

From there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been entrusted to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.

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Verse 14:27

Greek–English Translation

When they arrived and gathered the Church, they reported all that God had done with them and how He had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: With them renders meta autōn, retaining the relational expression; the door of faith remains the source’s image.

Verse 14:28

Greek–English Translation

They stayed no little time with the disciples.

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