Acts 14:12
And they actually called Barnabas, Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the man who led the word.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.
In Context
Cross References
Acts 19:35And when the town clerk calmed the multitude, he says, Ephesian men, now who is the man who does not know the city of the Ephesians being temple-guardian of the great goddess Artemis, and of what fell from Zeus?
Matthew Henry on Acts 14:9-19
The Lame Man Healed at Lystra; Paul and Barnabas at Lystra. 8 And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked: 9 The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, 10 Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked. 11 And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the… Read the whole commentary →