And 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!”
For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and a hard language, but to the house of Israel—
And the people shouted, “The voice of a god, and not of man!”
Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul, because he was the chief speaker, they called Hermes.
they learned of it and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the surrounding country;
They waited, expecting him to swell up or suddenly fall down dead; but when they had waited a long time and saw no misfortune come to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.
They all gave heed to him, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is that power of God which is called Great.”