15. and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men with the same nature as you, proclaiming the good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things that are in them—
16. who in generations that are past permitted all the nations to go their own ways.
17. And yet he did not leave himself without witness by doing good, giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying you with food and your hearts with gladness.”
18. And although they said these things, only with difficulty did they dissuade the crowds from offering sacrifice to them.
19. But Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium, and when they had won over the crowds and stoned Paul, they dragged him outside the city, thinking he was dead.
20. But after the disciples surrounded him, he got up and went into the city. And on the next day he departed with Barnabas for Derbe.
21. And after they had proclaimed the good news in that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch,