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Acts 14:6-12 Good News Bible Catholic Edition (GNBDK)

6. When the apostles learnt about it, they fled to the cities of Lystra and Derbe in Lycaonia and to the surrounding territory.

7. There they preached the Good News.

8. In Lystra there was a man who had been lame from birth and had never been able to walk.

9. He sat there and listened to Paul's words. Paul saw that he believed and could be healed, so he looked straight at him

10. and said in a loud voice, “Stand up straight on your feet!” The man jumped up and started walking around.

11. When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they started shouting in their own Lycaonian language, “The gods have become like men and have come down to us!”

12. They gave Barnabas the name Zeus, and Paul the name Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

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