Acts 14:11

“For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible lips or a difficult tongue, but to the house of Israel,

and they all, from smallest to greatest, were giving attention to him, saying, “This man is what is called the Great Power of God.”

they became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding region;

But they were waiting for him to soon swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, changing their minds, they began to say that he was a god.

persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra. What persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me!