Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, presuming he was dead.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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.
- KJV And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
- NKJV Then Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there; and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.
- NASB But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having won over the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, thinking that he was dead.
- NLT Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won the crowds to their side. They stoned Paul and dragged him out of town, thinking he was dead.
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Quick answer
Jews from Antioch and Iconium turned the crowd, stoned Paul, and left him for dead. Hostility pursued Paul relentlessly, and the crowd's praise quickly became violence.
Overview
The opponents tracked Paul across regions to oppose him, and the very crowd that had wanted to worship him now helped stone him. This is likely the stoning Paul later recalls among his sufferings (2 Corinthians 11:25). The scene shows the cost of faithful witness and how shallow admiration can swiftly turn to rejection.
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- 2 Tim 3:11my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
- 2 Cor 11:25Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.
- Acts 13:50–51The Jews, however, incited the religious women of prominence and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their district.
- Acts 14:5But when the Gentiles and Jews, together with their rulers, set out to mistreat and stone them,
- Acts 13:45But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.
- 2 Cor 11:23Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.
- Heb 13:12–13And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.
- Acts 9:16I will show him how much he must suffer for My name.”
- Acts 7:58They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
- 1 Cor 15:31I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- 2 Cor 4:10–12We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
- Acts 17:13But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that Paul was also proclaiming the word of God in Berea, they went there themselves to incite and agitate the crowds.
- Acts 14:21They preached the gospel to that city and made many disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
- Acts 22:20And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was shed, I stood there giving my approval and watching over the garments of those who killed him.’
- Jer 22:19He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.
- Mark 15:11–14But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas to them instead.
- Matt 27:20–25But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus put to death.
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