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This week's question:

When Paul talked about his former manner of life, he said, "For you have heard of my former manner of life in Judaism, how I used to persecute the church of God beyond measure, and tried to destroy it; and I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my countrymen, being more extremely zealous for my ancestral traditions." (Galatians 1:13-14) And again, "circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless." (Philippians 3:5-6), and then, "Why is it considered incredible among you people if God does raise the dead? So then, I thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. And this is just what I did in Jerusalem; not only did I lock up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority for the chief priests, but also when they were being put to death I cast my vote against them. And punished them often in all the synagogues, I tried to force them to blaspheme; and being furiously enraged at them, I kept pursuing them even to foreign cities." (Acts 26:8-11). And so he referred to himself as the "For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to called and apostle, because I persecuted the church of God." (1 Corinthians 15:9).

Jesus told Ananias about Paul (who was still called Saul) "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of Mine, to bear My name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel; for I will show him how much he must suffer for My name's sake." (Acts 9:15-16). Paul later recounts some of those times, "Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I. Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as if insane) I more so; in far more labors, in far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger of death. Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a nigh and a day I have spent in the deep. I have been on frequent journeys, in dangers of rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the wilderness, dangers on the sea, dangers from false brethren; I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. Apart from such external things, there is the daily pressure upon me of concern for all the churches."
(2 Corinthians 11:22-28)

That brings us to our question, "Where was Paul stoned and left for dead? When Paul traveled to Pisidian Antioch, he spoke in the synagogue on the Sabbath (Saturday) to try to teach the Jews who were still holding on to the Old Testament about the New Testament faith that came through Christ Jesus with the response, "And as Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people kept begging these things might be spoken to them the next Sabbath. Now when the meeting of the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and of the God-fearing proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, were urging to continue in the grace of God" (Acts 13:42-43).

On the next Sabbath nearly the whole city gathered together to hear him speak, "And the next Sabbath nearly the whole city assembled to hear the word of God. But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and began contradicting the things spoken by Paul, and were blaspheming. And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, 'It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken to you first; since you repudiate it, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles." (Acts 13:45-46) They were drove from that region, and they dusted off the dust from their feet in protest to their reaction to the word and traveled to Iconium where the Jews again stirred up the Gentiles who turned against Paul "And it came about that in Iconium they entered the synagogue of the Jews together, and spoke in such a manner that a great multitude believed, both of the Jews and of the Greeks. But the Jews who disbelieved stirred up the minds of the Gentiles, and embittered them against the brethren." (Acts 14:1-2).

They then traveled to another city and found a certain man who was lame from birth, "This man was listening to Paul as he spoke, who, when he had fixed his gaze upon him, and had seen that he had faith to be made well, said with a loud voice, 'Stand upright on your feet.' And he leaped up and began to walk. And when the multitudes saw what Paul had done, they raised their voice, saying in the Lycaonian language, 'The gods have become like men and have come down to us.' And they began calling Barnabas, Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker." (Acts 14:9-12). It was with great difficulty that they prevented the people from sacrificing before them as gods.

For the answer to our question we turn and read, "And even saying these things, they with difficulty restrained the crowds from offering sacrifice to them. But Jews came down from Antioch and Iconium, having won over the multitudes, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead. But while the disciples stood around him, he arose and entered the city. The next day he went away with Barnabas to Derbe. And after they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch." (Acts 14:19-21). So there we have the answer to our question as the city was none other than "Lystra" where we also read from the beginning of there journey where they found the lame man, "And at Lystra there was sitting a certain man, without strength in his feet, lame from his mother's womb, who never walked." (Acts 14:8)!