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Acts 14:11

Contemporary English Version 1995

When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they yelled out in the language of Lycaonia, “The gods have turned into humans and have come down to us!”

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The people kept thinking that Paul would either swell up or suddenly drop dead. They watched him for a long time, and when nothing happened to him, they changed their minds and said, “This man is a god.”

Everyone, rich and poor, crowded around him. They said, “This man is the power of God called ‘The Great Power.’ ”

The people shouted, “You speak more like a god than a man!”

They are Israelites, not some strangers who speak a foreign language you can't understand. If I were to send you to foreign nations, they would listen to you.

But when the two apostles found out what was happening, they escaped to the region of Lycaonia. They preached the good news there in the towns of Lystra and Derbe and in the nearby countryside.

The people then gave Barnabas the name Zeus, and they gave Paul the name Hermes, because he did the talking.




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