17But 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.
18And even with these words, it was hard for them to keep the people from making an offering to them.
19But 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.
20But 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.
21And 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,
22Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.
23And when they had made selection of some to be rulers in every church, and had given themselves to prayer and kept themselves from food, they put them into the care of the Lord in whom they had faith.