Acts 14:12

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

So, they called Barnabas, “Zeus,” and Paul “Hermes,” because Paul was the principal speaker.

Cross References

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 14:13

Then the priest of Zeus, whose temple was at the entrance of the city, brought bulls and wreaths of flowers to the gates [of the heathen temple], wanting to offer [animal] sacrifices on behalf of the crowds.

Acts 19:35

When the town clerk had quieted down the crowd, he said, “You people of Ephesus, who among you does not know that the city of Ephesus is caretaker of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image, which fell down from the sky?