Acts 14:18

Even with these words, Paul and Barnabas could hardly stop the crowds from sacrificing to them.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”

19Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, presuming he was dead.

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Cross References

Genesis 11:6And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

Exodus 32:21“What did this people do to you,” Moses asked Aaron, “that you have led them into so great a sin?”

John 6:15Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and make Him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by Himself.

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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