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Acts 14:19

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

Presently, however, there came some Jews from Antioch, and Iconium who, after they had won over the people, stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the town, thinking him to be dead.

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The others went on from Perga and arrived at Antioch in Pisidia. There they went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath and took their seats.

But the sight of the crowds of people filled the minds of the Jews with jealousy, and they kept contradicting Paul's statements in violent language.

The same thing occurred in Iconium, where Paul and Barnabas went into the Jewish Synagogue, and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed in Christ.

Even with this appeal they could hardly restrain the people from offering sacrifice to them.

But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the Gentiles, and poisoned their minds against the Brethren.

After telling the Good News throughout that town, and making a number of converts, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

From there they sailed to Antioch--the place where they had been committed to the gracious care of God for the work which they had now finished.

But the townspeople were divided, some siding with the Jews, some with the Apostles;

And, when there was an attempt on the part of both Gentiles and Jews, with their leading men, to resort to violence and to stone them,

Who have sacrificed themselves for the Name of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

But, when the Jews of Thessalonica found out that God's Message had been delivered by Paul at Beroea, they came there too, exciting and disturbing the minds of the people.

And, when the blood of your martyr, Stephen, was being shed, I was myself standing by, approving of his death, and took charge of the clothes of those who were murdering him.

And began to stone him, the witnesses laying their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

I will myself show him all that he has to suffer for my Name."

Daily I face death-I swear it, Brothers, by the pride in you that I feel through my union with Christ Jesus, our Lord.

Are they 'Servants of Christ'? Though it is madness to talk like this, I am more so than they! I have had more of toil, more of imprisonment! I have been flogged times without number. I have been often at death's door.

Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a whole day and night in the deep.

My journeys have been many. I have been through dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my own people, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in towns, dangers in the country, dangers on the sea, dangers among false Brothers.

For you, Brothers, began to follow the example of the Churches of God in Judea which are in union with Jesus Christ; you, in your turn, suffering at the hands of your fellow-citizens, in the same way as those Churches did at the hands of the Jews--

as well as of my persecutions, and of the sufferings which I met with at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. You know what persecutions I underwent; and yet the Lord brought me safe out of all!




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