Study Desk

After they passed the first and second guards, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went outside and passed one street, and suddenly the angel left him.

“You’re out of your mind!” they told her. But she kept insisting that it was true, and they said, “It’s his angel.”

Peter, however, kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were amazed.

Herod had been very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. Together they presented themselves before him. After winning over Blastus, who was in charge of the king’s bedroom, they asked for peace, because their country was supplied with food from the king’s country.

After they had completed their relief mission, Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem, taking along John who was called Mark.

As they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

Then after they had fasted, prayed, and laid hands on them, they sent them off.

So being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

They continued their journey from Perga and reached Pisidian Antioch. On the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

Since the residents of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize him or the sayings of the prophets that are read every Sabbath, they have fulfilled their words by condemning him.

When they had carried out all that had been written about him, they took him down from the tree and put him in a tomb.

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what Paul was saying, insulting him.

When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and honored the word of the Lord, and all who had been appointed to eternal life believed.

But the Jews incited the prominent God-fearing women and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them from their district.

In Iconium they entered the Jewish synagogue, as usual, and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.

So they stayed there a long time and spoke boldly for the Lord, who testified to the message of his grace by enabling them to do signs and wonders.

they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian towns of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding countryside.

Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

The apostles Barnabas and Paul tore their robes when they heard this and rushed into the crowd, shouting: