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Acts 14:18 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them. "
Acts 14:18
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16 who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
17 Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”
18 Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.
19 But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
20 But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and entered into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.
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Acts 14:1
"In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed."
Acts 14:2
"But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers."
Acts 14:3
"Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands."
Acts 14:4
"But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews and part with the apostles."
Acts 14:5
"When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,"
Acts 14:6
"they became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region."
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