When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in Lycaonian, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!”
They expected him to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But while they waited and saw no harm befall him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.
to whom they all listened, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the great power of God.”
The mob shouted, “It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!”
For you are not being sent to a people of foreign speech and hard language, but to the house of Israel,
they learned of it and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the surrounding region.
Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes, because he was the main speaker.