And when the people saw what Paul had done, they said in a loud voice, in the language of Lycaonia, The gods have come down to us in the form of men.
For you are not sent to a people whose talk is strange and whose language is hard, but to the children of Israel;
And the people, with loud cries, said, It is the voice of a god, not of a man.
And they gave the name of Jupiter to Barnabas, and to Paul that of Mercury, because he was the chief talker.
Having got news of it, they went in flight to the towns of Lycaonia, Lystra, and Derbe, and the country round about:
But they had the idea that they would see him becoming ill, or suddenly falling down dead; but after waiting a long time, and seeing that no damage came to him, changing their opinion, they said he was a god.
To whom they all gave attention, from the smallest to the greatest, saying, This man is that power of God which is named Great.