Acts 14

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Acts 14 completes the first missionary journey. At Iconium Paul and Barnabas win many Jews and Greeks, divide the city, and flee a plot to stone them. At Lystra Paul heals a man lame from birth, and the crowd hails the two as Zeus and Hermes and prepares a sacrifice; the apostles tear their clothes and preach the living God who gives rain and fruitful seasons. Jews from Antioch and Iconium arrive, stone Paul, and drag him out of the city for dead; he gets up and leaves for Derbe the next day. On the return they strengthen the disciples, warn that the kingdom is entered through many hardships, and appoint elders. Back in Antioch they report that God has opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.

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Acts 14 is the chapter where being an apostle nearly gets Paul killed twice, and where he keeps walking. In Iconium the preaching works so well that the city splits down the middle, and the two men leave one step ahead of a mob with stones. In Lystra, a backwoods town with its own dialect, Paul looks at a man who has never walked, sees faith in him, and shouts at him to stand, and the man jumps up. The crowd concludes that the old story has come true again: the gods have come down in human form, Barnabas is Zeus and the talkative Paul is Hermes, and the priest of Zeus is at the gate with bulls and garlands before the apostles understand a word. They tear their clothes and run into the crowd shouting that they are only men, and Paul preaches the only sermon in Acts to people who had never heard of Moses: the living God made heaven and earth, let the nations go their way for a while, and yet never left himself without a witness, because he sends rain and harvests and fills your hearts with food and gladness. They can barely stop the sacrifice. Then Jews arrive from the last two towns, turn the same crowd, and stone Paul, and drag him outside the walls as a corpse. The disciples gather around him. He gets up. He goes back into the city, and the next day walks on to Derbe. On the way home he revisits every town that tried to kill him, tells the new believers that this is what entering the kingdom costs, and appoints elders so that they will not be alone.

핵심 본문

Acts 14:1-7 Acts 14:8-18 Acts 14:19-23 Acts 14:24-28 2 Timothy 3:10-12 Acts 17:22-31

Historical and literary context

The journey took place around AD 47 or 48 in the Roman province of Galatia, in what is now central Turkey. Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe were towns of Lycaonia, and the crowd's cry "in the Lycaonian language" explains why the apostles were slow to grasp what was happening. A local legend, preserved by the poet Ovid, told of Zeus and Hermes visiting the region in disguise and being welcomed only by an old couple, which is why the people were determined not to miss the gods a second time. Paul's speech at Lystra is the first in Acts to a purely pagan audience and appeals to creation and providence rather than Scripture. Timothy, from Lystra, probably witnessed the stoning. Paul later lists it among his sufferings.

How the chapter unfolds

Verses 1 to 7 cover Iconium: success, opposition, division, the plot, and the flight to Lystra and Derbe. Verses 8 to 18 cover Lystra: the healing, the acclamation as gods, the sacrifice prepared, and the apostles' protest and sermon. Verses 19 and 20 record the stoning and Paul's recovery. Verses 21 to 23 describe the return visits, the encouragement, the warning about hardships, and the appointment of elders with prayer and fasting. Verses 24 to 28 trace the route home through Pisidia, Pamphylia, Perga, and Attalia to Antioch, and the report to the sending church.

Why this chapter matters

The chapter established the pattern of Paul's mission: synagogue first, then Gentiles, opposition, flight, and return to organize churches with elders. "We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God" is the New Testament's frankest statement that suffering is normal for believers. The Lystra sermon, God known through rain and harvest and "not left without testimony," is the seed of the Christian appeal to natural revelation, developed at Athens in chapter 17. The scene of the apostles refusing worship, "We too are only men," has been the church's rebuke to the cult of religious leaders, and Paul getting up after being stoned is one of the most remarkable images of endurance in Acts.

Interpretive tension to watch

Luke says Paul was stoned and "presumed dead," and readers differ on whether his rising was a miracle or a recovery; Paul's own later mention of a man caught up to paradise has been linked to this day without evidence. Verse 4 calls Barnabas an apostle, which complicates the idea that the apostles were only the Twelve plus Paul. The appointing of elders on a return trip within months raises the question of how quickly new churches should have local leadership. And the Lystra sermon's claim that God "let all nations go their own way" sits beside Romans 1's judgment on those nations.

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The same crowd wanted to sacrifice to Paul and then stoned him. What does that swing say about the applause of crowds?
Paul tells new believers that the kingdom is entered through many hardships. Is that a message churches today would put on their welcome sign?
God "has not left Himself without testimony" in rain and harvests. Where do people outside the church encounter his goodness before they hear his name?

Study with context

Use this as a chapter guide, then press deeper into the text itself. The goal is to slow down observation, notice structure, and ask better questions before jumping to conclusions.

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1 I stalo se v Ikonii, že vešli spolu do školy Židovské, a mluvili slovo Boží, takže jest uvěřilo i Židů i Řeků veliké množství. 2 Ale kteříž z Židů nepovolní byli, ti zbouřili a zdráždili mysli pohanů proti bratřím. 3 I byli tu za dlouhý čas, směle a svobodně mluvíce v Pánu, kterýž svědectví vydával slovu milosti své, a působil to, aby se dáli divové a zázrakové skrze ruce jejich. 4 I rozdělilo se množství města, a jedni byli s Židy, a jiní s apoštoly. 5 A když se obořili na apoštoly i pohané i Židé s knížaty svými, aby je utiskli a kamenovali, 6 Oni srozuměvše tomu, utekli do měst Lykaonitských, do Lystry a do Derben, a do toho okolí, 7 A tu kázali evangelium. 8 Muž pak nějaký v Lystře, nemocný na nohy, sedával, chromý jsa hned z života matky své, kterýž nikdy nechodil. 9 Ten poslouchal Pavla mluvícího. Kterýžto pohleděv naň, a vida, an věří, že uzdraven bude, 10 Řekl velikým hlasem: Postav se přímě na nohách svých. I zchopil se a chodil. 11 Zástupové pak viděvše, co učinil Pavel, pozdvihli hlasu svého, Lykaonitsky řkouce: Bohové připodobnivše se lidem, sstoupili k nám. 12 I nazvali Barnabáše Jupiterem a Pavla Merkuriášem; nebo on mluvil slovo Boží. 13 Tedy kněz Jupitera, modly té, kteráž byla před městem jejich, přivedl býky a přinesl věnce před bránu, a chtěl s lidem oběti obětovati. 14 To když uslyšeli apoštolé, Barnabáš a Pavel, roztrhše sukně své, vyběhli k zástupům, křičíce, 15 A řkouce: Muži, což to činíte? Však i my lidé jsme, týmž bídám jako i vy poddaní, kteříž vás napomínáme, abyste se obrátili od těchto marností k Bohu živému, kterýž učinil nebe i zemi, i moře, i všecko, což v nich jest. 16 Kterýžto za předešlých věků všech pohanů nechával, aby chodili po cestách svých, 17 Ačkoli proto nenechal sebe bez osvědčení, dobře čině, dávaje nám s nebe déšť a časy úrodné, naplňuje pokrmem a potěšením srdce naše. 18 A to mluvíce, sotva spokojili zástupy, aby jim neobětovali. 19 A vtom přišli od Antiochie a Ikonie nějací Židé, kteřížto navedše zástupy, a ukamenovavše Pavla, vytáhli jej před město, domnívajíce se, že umřel. 20 A když jej obstoupili učedlníci, vstal a všel do města, a nazejtří odšel s Barnabášem do Derben. 21 A kázavše evangelium městu tomu, a učedlníků mnoho získavše, navrátili se do Lystry a do Ikonie a do Antiochie, 22 Potvrzujíce duší učedlníků, a napomínajíce jich, aby trvali u víře, a pravíce, že musíme skrze mnohá soužení vjíti do království Božího. 23 A zřídivše jim, podle daných hlasů, starší po církvech, a modlivše se s postem, poručili je Pánu, v kteréhož jsou uvěřili. 24 A prošedše Pisidii, přišli do Pamfylie, 25 A mluvivše slovo Boží v Pergen, šli do města Attalie. 26 A odtud plavili se do Antiochie, odkudž poručeni byli milosti Boží k dílu, kteréž jsou vykonali. 27 A když tam přišli a shromáždili církev, vypravovali jim, kteraké věci Bůh skrze ně učinil a že otevřel pohanům dveře víry. 28 I byli tu za dlouhý čas s učedlníky.

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