So when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in human form!”
For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech and difficult language, but to the house of Israel –
But the crowd began to shout, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”
They began to call Barnabas Zeus and Paul Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.
Paul and Barnabas learned about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and the surrounding region.
But they were expecting that he was going to swell up or suddenly drop dead. So after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.
All the people, from the least to the greatest, paid close attention to him, saying, “This man is the power of God that is called ‘Great.’”