Now when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have come down to us in human form!"
The natives waited for him to swell up or drop down dead in a moment, but after waiting a long while and observing that no harm had befallen him, they changed their minds and declared he was a god.
and all sorts and conditions of people attached themselves to him, declaring he was that Power of God which is known as 'the Great Power.'
The populace shouted, "It is a god's voice, not a man's!"
the apostles grasped the situation and escaped to the Lycaonian towns of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding country;
Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul Hermes, since he was the chief spokesman.