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Place

Lystra

Identified location. The site is known today and most scholars agree on it.

A town of Lycaonia. Paul healed a man here who "never had walked", and the crowd took Barnabas and Paul for gods. Then Jews from Antioch and Iconium won the people over, stoned Paul and dragged him out for dead. Later Paul returned and took along Timothy, a disciple well spoken of there.

Who passed through

In story order. King James Version.

  1. Paul, Acts 14:9
    The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,
  2. Paul, Acts 14:19
    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.
  3. Barnabas, Acts 14:20
    Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.
  4. Timothy, Acts 16:1
    Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:
  5. Paul, Acts 16:3
    Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.

All places

Place names, references and coordinates: STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), with coordinates from OpenBible.info. Map: Natural Earth (public domain).