Paul and Barnabas go to Iconium where the preach in the Jewish synagogues to both Jews and Gentiles. They had many people believe about Jesus but they also had their detractors. The detractors stirred up the leaders and Paul and Barnabas moved in to the next towns of Lystra and Derbe. 

In Lystra, Paul saw a man with shriveled feet and healed him. The people said, ”the gods have come down in the likeness of men.” They brought oxen and garlands and called Barnabas, Zeus and Paul, Hermes. Unlike King Herod a few chapters back, Paul and Barnabas immediately corrected them saying that they were naturally men and spoke of the living God they served who brought the sun, rain and harvest. 

Their hero worship lasted only two seconds, because the other religious leaders dragged them off and stoned them and left them for dead. When the disciples came to collect them, they got up and continued in to the next towns preaching and sharing the gospel. 

Then they reversed their direction and went back through the towns they first visited, establishing elders over the local groups of believer and spent time together.