Introduction

The Book of Acts records three missionary tours that Paul makes throughout Asia Minor and even into Europe to advance the good news of Jesus. In chapter 14 he encounters a man there in Lystra that the Bible describes as being crippled from birth, that he was never able to walk. And so this man is gonna receive a miracle. And God is going to use Paul as a vessel of God's miraculous power to heal this man. Don't overlook the miracle, but I also want you to notice the reaction of the crowd in response to this miracle. They go from venerating Paul and Barnabas, treating them like gods because of this miraculous thing that happens to being an angry mob that attacks and