Acts 14:18

Now certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium arrived there. And having persuaded the crowd, they stoned Paul and dragged him outside of the city, thinking him to be dead.

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In The King James Version

And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.

In Context

17And by saying these things, they were barely able to restrain the crowds from immolating to them.

19But as the disciples were standing around him, he got up and entered the city. And the next day, he set out with Barnabas for Derbe.

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Cross References

Genesis 11:6And he said: “Behold, the people are united, and all have one tongue. And since they have begun to do this, they will not desist from their plans, until they have completed their work.

Exodus 32:21And he said to Aaron, “What has this people done to you, so that you would bring upon them the greatest sin?”

John 6:15And so, when he realized that they were going to come and take him away and make him king, Jesus fled back to the mountain, by himself alone.

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 →

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