icing and filled with the Holy Ghost for all who had believed their message.Iconium was their next point of arrival where they spoke to the Jews in the synagogue. A large number of Jews and Greeks believed, but the unbelieving Jews stirred up the minds of the Gentiles with evil against them. The city was divided and the Jews sought to persecute the believers, which fled into Lystra and Derbe in Lycaonia.In Lystra and Derbe of Lycaonia the apostles preached the gospel and even healed a man who had been crippled from birth. When the people saw the miracle they believed Paul and Barnabas to be gods. The people of the town brought offerings to worship them. Paul and Barnabas tried to persuade them they were not gods at all but did so without any success. In spite of Paul’s efforts to witness, the Jews from the neighboring towns persuaded the people that they should stone Paul for not accepting their offerings. After doing so they took him out of the city where he regained his composure among the disciples and went back into the city.Finally, Paul retraced his steps through Lystra, Antioch, and Iconium. While in each of these places he exhorted them once again to continue in the faith. Also while retracing these steps, he ordained elders for every church and prayed and fasted with them. After they had accomplished this all, they continued on to Antioch in Syria where certain men from Judea queried about, “Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved” (Acts 15:1). Paul and Barnabas came to Jerusalem to answer the question of circumcision and thus ended their first missionary journey. ...
