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.
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.
- 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.
- 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 3:11persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.
- 2 Cor 11:25Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
- Acts 13:50–51But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.
- Acts 14:5When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,
- Acts 13:45But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.
- 2 Cor 11:23Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
- Heb 13:12–13Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.
- Acts 9:16For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”
- Acts 7:58They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
- 1 Cor 15:31I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
- 2 Cor 4:10–12always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
- Acts 17:13But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.
- Acts 14:21When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
- Acts 22:20When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.’
- Jer 22:19He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
- Mark 15:11–14But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release Barabbas to them instead.
- Matt 27:20–25Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
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