ACTS 14:19 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“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.”
Then some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged his body outside the city, thinking he was dead — the arrival of hostile Jews from previous cities reveals an organized opposition following the missionaries' trail. The stoning (lithoboleo) fulfills the threat mentioned in 14:5. Paul's apparent death experience (nomizō tehnēkos, thinking him dead) prefigures his later recounting of being caught up to the third heaven (2 Corinthians 12:2-4), suggesting this trauma may link to that mystical experience.
Church Fathers on Acts 14:19
But there came, it says, certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium Acts 14:19.— Indeed children of the devil, that not in their own cities only, but also beyond them, they did these things, and as much made it their study to make an end of the preaching, as the Apostles were in earnest to establish it!— and having persuaded the multitude and stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the city. (e) So then, the Gentiles regarded them as gods, but these dragged him, out of the city,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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