Thematic Bible: Deification


Thematic Bible



The assembled people began to shout, “It’s the voice of a god and not of a man!”

When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices, saying in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in the form of men!”

They expected that he would swell up or suddenly drop dead. But after they waited a long time and saw nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.


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