Growth and Persecution in Iconium

14 The same thing happened in Iconium; they entered the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.^(A)

¹⁹ Then some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and when they had won over the crowds and stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the city, thinking he was dead.^(A)

Church Planting

²¹ After they had evangelized that town and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, to Iconium, and to Antioch,^(A)

² The brothers at Lystra and Iconium spoke highly of him.^(A)

¹¹ along with the persecutions and sufferings^(A) that came to me in Antioch,^(B) Iconium,^(C) and Lystra.^(D) What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from them all.