Today, I am reading and commenting on  Acts 14-16.

The first thing which struck me was that the people of Lystra spoke a local language which was neither Greek nor Latin.  Two things are significant about that local language.  One, that Paul, Barnabas, and the rest of their party did not speak it.  And, two, that scholars accept that such a language was spoken there even though Luke is the only writer of the period to mention it (writings by other writers of the period support the idea that the people of this area were of a unique ethnicity in ways which would be consistent with them having their own language).  Of greater significance is the way the crowd went from wanting to worship Paul and Barnabas as gods to stoning Paul to death (or, so they thought).  Also of interest is that after they were finished in the city of Derbe, Paul and Barnabas returned to Lystra, where Paul was stoned and left for dead, Iconium, which they had left because people there were plotting to kill them, and Pisidian Antioch, which had expelled them.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.