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Acts 14:1

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The same thing happened in the city of Iconium. Paul and Barnabas went into the synagogue and spoke in such a way that a large crowd of Jews and Greeks believed.

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The woman happened to be Greek, born in Phoenicia in Syria. She asked him to force the demon out of her daughter.

Some Greeks were among those who came to worship during the Passover festival.

The Jews said among themselves, “Where does this man intend to go so that we won’t find him? Does he mean that he’ll live with the Jews who are scattered among the Greeks and that he’ll teach the Greeks?

The Lord’s power was with his followers, and a large number of people believed and turned to the Lord.

When the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas. Paul and Barnabas talked with them and were persuading them to continue trusting God’s good will.

Paul and Barnabas told them boldly, “We had to speak God’s word to you first. Since you reject the word and consider yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, we are now going to turn to people of other nations.

Arriving in the city of Salamis, they began to spread God’s word in the synagogues. John Mark had gone along to help them.

In protest against these people, Paul and Barnabas shook the dust off their feet and went to the city of Iconium.

However, Jews from the cities of Antioch and Iconium arrived in Lystra and won the people over. They tried to stone Paul to death and dragged him out of the city when they thought that he was dead.

But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up some people who were not Jewish and poisoned their minds against the believers.

They spread the Good News in that city and won many disciples. Then they went back to the cities of Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch (which is in Pisidia).

Paul arrived in the city of Derbe and then went to Lystra, where a disciple named Timothy lived. Timothy’s mother was a Jewish believer, but his father was Greek.

The believers in Lystra and Iconium spoke well of Timothy.

Many of them became believers, and quite a number of them were prominent Greek men and women.

He held discussions in the synagogue with Jews and converts to Judaism. He also held discussions every day in the public square with anyone who happened to be there.

Some of the Jews were persuaded to join Paul and Silas, especially a large group of Greeks who had converted to Judaism and the wives of many prominent men.

On every day of rest—a holy day, Paul would discuss ⌞Scripture⌟ in the synagogue. He tried to win over Jews and Greeks who had converted to Judaism.

The synagogue leader Crispus and his whole family believed in the Lord. Many Corinthians who heard Paul believed and were baptized.

This continued for two years so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord.

All the Jews and Greeks living in the city of Ephesus heard about this. All of them were filled with awe for the name of the Lord Jesus and began to speak very highly about it.

For three months Paul would go into the synagogue and speak boldly. He had discussions with people to convince them about God’s kingdom.

At the same time, they praised God and had the good will of all the people. Every day the Lord saved people, and they were added to the group.

I warned Jews and Greeks to change the way they think and act and to believe in our Lord Jesus.

Then they began shouting, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere to turn against the Jewish people, Moses’ Teachings, and this temple. He has even brought Greeks into the temple courtyard and has made this holy place unclean.”

He immediately began to spread the word in their synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God.

I’m not ashamed of the Good News. It is God’s power to save everyone who believes, Jews first and Greeks as well.

There is no difference between Jews and Greeks. They all have the same Lord, who gives his riches to everyone who calls on him.

Titus was with me, and although he is Greek, no one forced him to be circumcised.

There are neither Jews nor Greeks, slaves nor free people, males nor females. You are all the same in Christ Jesus.

Where this happens, there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, uncivilized person, slave, or free person. Instead, Christ is everything and in everything.

You also know about the kind of persecutions and sufferings which happened to me in the cities of Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions, and the Lord rescued me from all of them.




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