Acts 14:6 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁶ Paul and Barnabas found out about it and escaped to the towns of Lystra and Derbe, in the province of Lycaonia, and elsewhere in the vicinity.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ they were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ They, aware of the situation, made their escape to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and the neighboring districts;

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ they became aware of it, and fled unto the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the region round about:

Common English Bible

⁶ When they learned of it, these two messengers fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and the surrounding area,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ they, realizing this, fled together to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the entire surrounding region. And they were evangelizing in that place.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ They understanding it, fled to Lystra, and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the whole country round about, and were there preaching the gospel.

Acts 14:6 Cross References

Matthew 10:23

When they persecute you in one town, run to the next one, for it is true when I tell you, you will not have traveled through [all] the towns of the Israelites until the Son of man comes [i.e., in His kingdom].

Acts 14:11

And when the crowd saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the dialect of Lycaonia, “The gods have come down to us in human form.”

Acts 14:8

At Lystra they met a certain man sitting [on the street] who had a crippling handicap in his feet which he had suffered since birth. [It was so severe] he was never able to walk.

Acts 15:36

Then after some days Paul suggested to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the brothers in all the towns where we proclaimed the message of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”

Acts 20:4

The following men accompanied Paul as far as [the province of] Asia [where Troas was located]: Sopater, the son of Pyrrhus, of Berea; Aristarchus and Secundus, of Thessalonica; Gaius, of Derbe; Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus from [the province of] Asia; [seven in all].

Acts 9:24

but he found out about their plan. And so they watched the gates [of the city] day and night [looking for their chance] to kill him.

2 Timothy 3:11

persecutions and sufferings. You know what kind of things happened to me at Antioch, Iconium and Lystra [See Acts 13:13-14:23], and what [severe] persecutions I experienced [there]. But the Lord rescued me from all of them.