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Acts 13
⁵⁰ Then the Jews stirred up the influential religious women and the leaders of the city, and they incited a mob against Paul and Barnabas and ran them out of town.
⁵¹ So they shook the dust from their feet as a sign of rejection and went to the town of Iconium.
⁵² And the believers were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
Acts 14
¹ The same thing happened in Iconium. Paul and Barnabas went to the Jewish synagogue and preached with such power that a great number of both Jews and Greeks became believers.
² Some of the Jews, however, spurned God’s message and poisoned the minds of the Gentiles against Paul and Barnabas.
³ But the apostles stayed there a long time, preaching boldly about the grace of the Lord. And the Lord proved their message was true by giving them power to do miraculous signs and wonders.
⁴ But the people of the town were divided in their opinion about them. Some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.
⁵ Then a mob of Gentiles and Jews, along with their leaders, decided to attack and stone them.
⁶ When the apostles learned of it, they fled to the region of Lycaonia—to the towns of Lystra and Derbe and the surrounding area.
⁷ And there they preached the Good News.
⁸ While they were at Lystra, Paul and Barnabas came upon a man with crippled feet. He had been that way from birth, so he had never walked. He was sitting