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.
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.
- BSB 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.
- 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.
Cross-references & the web
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- 2 Tim 3:11Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
- 2 Cor 11:25Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
- Acts 13:50–51But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
- Acts 14:5And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone them,
- Acts 13:45But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
- 2 Cor 11:23Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
- Heb 13:12–13Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
- Acts 9:16For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.
- Acts 7:58And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.
- 1 Cor 15:31I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our LORD, I die daily.
- 2 Cor 4:10–12Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
- Acts 17:13But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.
- Acts 14:21And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,
- Acts 22:20And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.
- Jer 22:19He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
- Mark 15:11–14But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.
- Matt 27:20–25But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
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