The people still expected him to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. So they waited for a long time, but when they didn’t see anything like that happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.
But Paul and Barnabas found out about their plan and escaped north to the region of Lycaonia. There they continued to preach the good news in the cities of Lystra and Derbe and in the area around them.