^{15 Ref} Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:

^{16 Ref} Who in the past let all nations go in the ways which seemed good to them.

^{17 Ref} But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.

^{18 Ref} And even with these words, it was hard for them to keep the people from making an offering to them.

^{19 Ref} But some Jews came to that place from Antioch and Iconium, and got control over the people; and after stoning Paul, they had him pulled out of the town, taking him for dead.

^{20 Ref} But when the disciples came round him, he got up and went into the town: and the day after he went away with Barnabas to Derbe.

^{21 Ref} And having made a number of disciples through the preaching of the good news in that town, they went back to Lystra and Iconium and Antioch,