And seeing what Paul did, the crowd lifted up their voice in Lycaonian, saying, The gods have come down to us, becoming like men.
For you are not sent to a people of deep lip and difficult of language, but to the house of Israel;
And the people cried out, The voice of a god, and not of a man!
And they called Barnabas, Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the one leading in the word.
perceiving it all, they fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the region around.
But they were expecting him to be about to be swollen up, or suddenly to fall down dead. But over much time, they expecting and observing nothing out of place hap- pening to him, changing their minds, they said him to be a god.
to whom all were paying attention to him, from small to great, saying, This one is the great power of God.