Everyone there saw him walking around and praising God.
What he said shamed all his opponents, but everyone in the crowd was delighted by all the wonderful things he was doing.
When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted out in the language of Lycaonia, “The gods have come down to us looking like men!”
“What should we do with these men?” they asked. “We can't deny a significant miracle has happened through them. Everybody living here in Jerusalem knows about it.
After making more threats they let them go. They couldn't work out how to punish them because everyone was glorifying God for what had happened.
