ACTS 14:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.”
When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices, saying in the Lycaonian language, 'The gods have come down to us in human form' — the pagan crowd's response reveals fundamental theological confusion: they interpret the healing not as testimony to the Christian God but as an epiphany (theophania) of their own gods. The Lycaonian language (Lykaonisti dialektos) emphasizes the provincial setting and cultural distance from Jerusalem's Jewish world.
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