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It holds significant importance in the New Testament as a site visited by the Apostle Paul during his missionary journeys. Lystra is mentioned primarily in the Acts of the Apostles and is notable for its role in the spread of early Christianity.<br><br><b>Biblical References:</b><br><br>1. <b>Paul's First Missionary Journey:</b><br> Lystra is first mentioned in <a href="/bsb/acts/14.htm">Acts 14</a> during Paul's first missionary journey. Paul and Barnabas traveled to Lystra after facing opposition in Iconium. In Lystra, Paul performed a miraculous healing of a man who had been lame from birth. The people of Lystra, witnessing this miracle, mistakenly believed Paul and Barnabas to be gods, calling Barnabas "Zeus" and Paul "Hermes" (<a href="/acts/14-11.htm">Acts 14:11-12</a>). The local priest of Zeus even brought bulls and wreaths to offer sacrifices to them. However, Paul and Barnabas vehemently rejected this adulation, insisting that they were mere men and urging the people to turn to the living God (<a href="/acts/14-15.htm">Acts 14:15</a>).<br><br>2. <b>Persecution and Stoning:</b><br> Despite the initial positive reception, Paul faced severe persecution in Lystra. Jews from Antioch and Iconium arrived and incited the crowd against him. Paul was stoned and dragged out of the city, presumed dead. However, he miraculously survived and continued his ministry (<a href="/acts/14-19.htm">Acts 14:19-20</a>).<br><br>3. <b>Paul's Second Missionary Journey:</b><br> Lystra is also significant as the hometown of Timothy, a young disciple who would become one of Paul's closest companions and co-workers in the ministry. During Paul's second missionary journey, he returned to Lystra and invited Timothy to join him, recognizing his strong faith and good reputation among the believers (<a href="/acts/16.htm">Acts 16:1-3</a>).<br><br><b>Cultural and Historical Context:</b><br><br>Lystra was a Roman colony, and its population was a mix of Roman citizens, Greeks, and indigenous Lycaonians. The city's religious life was heavily influenced by Greco-Roman paganism, as evidenced by the worship of Zeus and Hermes. The incident of the attempted sacrifice to Paul and Barnabas highlights the deep-seated pagan beliefs and the challenges faced by early Christian missionaries in communicating the gospel to a polytheistic audience.<br><br><b>Theological Significance:</b><br><br>The events in Lystra underscore several key themes in the New Testament. First, they illustrate the power of God working through the apostles to perform miracles, which served as a testament to the truth of the gospel message. Second, the reaction of the Lystrans highlights the misunderstandings and cultural barriers that early Christians had to navigate in their mission to spread the gospel. Finally, the perseverance of Paul in the face of persecution serves as an example of steadfast faith and dedication to the mission of Christ.<br><br>Lystra's role in the New Testament narrative is a testament to the transformative power of the gospel and the challenges faced by the early church in its mission to bring the message of salvation to the ends of the earth.<a name="hit" id="hit"></a><div class="vheading2">Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary</div><span class="encheading">Lystra</span><p>that dissolves or disperses<a name="smi" id="smi"></a><div class="vheading2">Smith's Bible Dictionary</div><span class="encheading">Lystra</span><p>This place has two points of interest in connection respectively with St. Paul's first and second missionary Journeys: (1) as the place where divine honors were offered to him, and where he was presently stoned, (<a href="/acts/14-1.htm">Acts 14:1</a>) ... (2) as the home of his chosen companion and fellow missionary Timotheus. (<a href="/acts/16-1.htm">Acts 16:1</a>) Lystra was in the eastern part of the great plain of Lycaonia, and its site may be identified with the ruins called <i>Bin-bir-Kilisseh</i> , at the base of a conical mountain of volcanic structure, named the <i>Karadagh</i> .<a name="amt" id="amt"></a><div class="vheading2">ATS Bible Dictionary</div><span class="encheading">Lystra</span><p>A city of Lycaonia, near Derbe and Iconium, and the native place of Timothy. Paul and Barnabas preached the gospel here; and having healed a cripple, were almost worshipped. Soon after, however, Paul was stoned there, <a href="/context/acts/14-6.htm">Acts 14:6</a>,21 16:1 2Ti 3:11. It is now a small place called Latik.</p><a name="eas" id="eas"></a><div class="vheading2">Easton's Bible Dictionary</div>A town of Lycaonia, in Asia Minor, in a wild district and among a rude population. Here Paul preached the gospel after he had been driven by persecution from Iconium (<a href="/acts/14-2.htm">Acts 14:2</a>-7). Here also he healed a lame man (8), and thus so impressed the ignorant and superstitious people that they took him for Mercury, because he was the "chief speaker," and his companion Barnabas for Jupiter, probably in consequence of his stately, venerable appearance; and were proceeding to offer sacrifices to them (13), when Paul earnestly addressed them and turned their attention to the true source of all blessings. But soon after, through the influence of the Jews from Antioch in Pisidia and Iconium, they stoned Paul and left him for dead (<a href="/acts/14-19.htm">14:19</a>). On recovering, Paul left for Derbe; but soon returned again, through Lystra, encouraging the disciples there to steadfastness. He in all likelihood visited this city again on his third missionary tour (<a href="/acts/18-23.htm">Acts 18:23</a>). Timothy, who was probably born here (<a href="/2_timothy/3-10.htm">2 Timothy 3:10</a>, 11), was no doubt one of those who were on this occasion witnesses of Paul's persecution and his courage in Lystra. <a name="isb" id="isb"></a><div class="vheading2">International Standard Bible Encyclopedia</div><span class="encheading">LYSTRA</span><p>lis'-tra: The forms Lustran, and Lustrois, occur. Such variation in the gender of Anatolian city-names is common (see Harnack, Apostelgeschichte, 86; Ramsay, Paul the Traveler, 128). Lystra was visited by Paul 4 times (<a href="/acts/14-6.htm">Acts 14:6, 21</a>; <a href="/acts/16-1.htm">Acts 16:1</a>; <a href="/acts/18-23.htm">Acts 18:23</a> -the last according to the "South Galatian" theory), and is mentioned in <a href="/2_timothy/3-10.htm">2 Timothy 3:10</a> as one of the places where Paul suffered persecution. Timothy resided in Lystra (<a href="/acts/16-1.htm">Acts 16:1</a>).<br><br>1. Character and Site:<br><br>Lystra owed its importance, and the attention which Paul paid to it, to the fact that it had been made a Roman colonia by Augustus (see ANTIOCH), and was therefore, in the time of Paul, a center of education and enlightenment. Nothing is known of its earlier, and little of its later, history. The site of Lystra was placed by Leake (1820) at a hill near Khatyn Serai, 18 miles South-Southwest from Iconium; this identification was proved correct by an inscription found by Sterrett in 1885. The boundary between Phrygia and Lycaonia passed between Iconium and Lystra. (<a href="/acts/14-6.htm">Acts 14:6</a>) (see ICONIUM).<br><br>The population of Lystra consisted of the local aristocracy of Roman soldiers who formed the garrison of the colonia, of Greeks and Jews (<a href="/acts/16-1.htm">Acts 16:1, 3</a>), and of native Lycaonians (<a href="/acts/14-11.htm">Acts 14:11</a>).<br><br>2. Worship of Paul and Barnabas:<br><br>After Paul had healed a life-long cripple at Lystra, the native population (the "multitude" of <a href="/acts/14-11.htm">Acts 14:11</a>) regarded him and Barnabas as pagan gods come down to them in likeness of men, and called Barnabas "Zeus" and Paul "Hermes." Commentators on this incident usually point out that the same pair of divinities appeared to Baucis and Philemon in Ovid's well-known story, which he locates in the neighboring Phrygia. The accuracy in detail of this part of the narrative in Acts has been strikingly confirmed by recent epigraphic discovery. Two inscriptions found in the neighborhood of Lystra in 1909 run as follows:<br><br>(1) "Kakkan and Maramoas and Iman Licinius priests of Zeus";<br><br>(2) "Toues Macrinus also called Abascantus and Batasis son of Bretasis having made in accordance with a vow at their own expense (a statue of) Hermes Most Great along with a sun-dial dedicated it to Zeus the sun-god."<br><br>Now it is evident from the narrative in Acts that the people who were prepared to worship Paul and Barnabas as gods were not Greeks or Romans, but native Lycaonians. This is conclusively brought out by the use of the phrase "in the speech of Lycaonia" (<a href="/acts/14-11.htm">Acts 14:11</a>). The language in ordinary use among the educated classes in Central Anatolian cities under the Roman Empire was Greek; in some of those cities, and especially of course, in Roman colonies, Latin also was understood, and it was used at this period in official documents. But the Anatolian element in the population of those cities continued for a long time to use the native language (e.g. Phrygian was in use at Iconium till the 3rd century of our era; see ICONIUM). In the story in Acts a fast distinction is implied, and in fact existed, between the ideas and practices of the Greeks and the Roman colonists and those of the natives. This distinction would naturally maintain itself most vigorously in so conservative an institution as religious ritual and legend. We should therefore expect to find that the association between Zeus and Hermes indicated in Acts belonged to the religious system of the native population, rather than to that of the educated society of the colony. And this is precisely the character of the cult illustrated in our two inscriptions. It is essentially a native cult, under a thin Greek disguise. The names in those inscriptions can only have been the names of natives; the Zeus and Hermes of Acts and of our inscriptions were a graecized version of the Father-god and Son-god of the native Anatolian system. The college of priests which appears in inscription number 1 (supporting the Bezan variant "priests" for "priest" in <a href="/acts/14-13.htm">Acts 14:13</a>) was a regular Anatolian institution. The miracle performed by Paul, and his companionship with Barnabas would naturally suggest to the natives who used the "speech of Lycaonia" a pair of gods commonly associated by them in a local cult. The two gods whose names rose to their lips are now known to have been associated by the dedication of a statue of one in a temple, of the other in the neighborhood of Lystra.<br><br>LITERATURE.<br><br>Ramsay, Cities of Paul, 407;. On the new inscriptions, see Calder, The Expositor, 1910, 1;, 148;; id, Classical Review, 1910, 67;. Inscriptions of Lystra are published in Sterrett, Wolfe Expedition, and in Jour. Hell. Stud., 1904 (Cronin).<br><br>W. M. Calder<p><a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/3082.htm"><span class="l">3082. Lustra -- <b>Lystra</b>, a city of Lycaonia</span></a> <br><b>...</b> <b>Lystra</b>, a city of Lycaonia. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine; Noun, Neuter<br> Transliteration: Lustra Phonetic Spelling: (loos'-trah) Short Definition: <b>Lystra</b> <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3082.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/5095.htm"><span class="l">5095. Timotheos -- Timothy, a Christian</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Noun, Masculine Transliteration: Timotheos Phonetic Spelling: (tee-moth'-eh-os)<br> Short Definition: Timothy Definition: Timothy, a Christian of <b>Lystra</b>, helper of <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5095.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/3071.htm"><span class="l">3071. Lukaonia -- Lycaonia, a region in Asia Minor</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Lycaonia, the country of the Lykaones, a district of Asia Minor, comprised within<br> the Roman province Galatia and including the cities of Derbe and <b>Lystra</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3071.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/4742.htm"><span class="l">4742. stigma -- a bed of leaves or rushes</span></a> <br><b>...</b> 4742 ("brand-mark") refers to the literal scars on Paul from the lictor's<br> rods at Pisidian Antioch, the stoning at <b>Lystra</b>, etc. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4742.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><p><a href="/library/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_10_1864/the_cripple_at_lystra.htm"><span class="l">The Cripple at <b>Lystra</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> The Cripple at <b>Lystra</b>. A Sermon (No.559). by the. Rev. <b>...</b> I HAVE READ in your hearing<br> the story of the preaching of Paul and Barnabas in the town of <b>Lystra</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 10 1864/the cripple at lystra.htm</font><p><a href="/library/dick/lectures_on_the_acts_of_the_apostles/lecture_xv_paul_and_barnabas.htm"><span class="l">Paul and Barnabas in <b>Lystra</b>.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> LECTURES LECTURE XV. PAUL AND BARNABAS IN <b>LYSTRA</b>. Chap. xiv.8-18. ANTIOCH of<br> Syria was the first city, in which the gospel was publicly <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../dick/lectures on the acts of the apostles/lecture xv paul and barnabas.htm</font><p><a href="/library/drummond/introduction_to_the_new_testament/the_acts_of_the_apostles.htm"><span class="l">The Acts of the Apostles</span></a> <br><b>...</b> From Antioch Barnabas and Saul set out on the first missionary journey, including<br> visits to Cyprus, Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, <b>Lystra</b> and Derbe, from where <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../drummond/introduction to the new testament/the acts of the apostles.htm</font><p><a href="/library/white/the_acts_of_the_apostles/lesson_18_preaching_among_the.htm"><span class="l">Preaching among the Heathen</span></a> <br><b>...</b> glory of His name. Driven by persecution from Iconium, the apostles went<br> to <b>Lystra</b> and Derbe, in Lycaonia. These towns were inhabited <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../white/the acts of the apostles/lesson 18 preaching among the.htm</font><p><a href="/library/white/the_acts_of_the_apostles/lesson_20_exalting_the_cross.htm"><span class="l">Exalting the Cross</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Journeying through Syria and Cilicia, where they strengthened the church, Paul and<br> Silas at length reached Derbe and <b>Lystra</b> in the province of Lycaonia. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../white/the acts of the apostles/lesson 20 exalting the cross.htm</font><p><a href="/library/sherman/the_childrens_bible/why_paul_went_to_macedonia.htm"><span class="l">Why Paul Went to Macedonia</span></a> <br><b>...</b> He also went to Derbe and <b>Lystra</b>. At <b>Lystra</b> there was a disciple, called<br> Timothy, the son of a Christian Jewess and a Greek father. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../sherman/the childrens bible/why paul went to macedonia.htm</font><p><a href="/library/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/deified_and_stoned.htm"><span class="l">Deified and Stoned</span></a> <br><b>...</b> And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they<br> returned again to <b>Lystra</b>, and to Iconium, and Antioch.22. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture the acts/deified and stoned.htm</font><p><a href="/library/sherman/the_childrens_bible/paul_and_barnabas_in_foreign.htm"><span class="l">Paul and Barnabas in Foreign Lands</span></a> <br><b>...</b> races and by the Jews, with the help of their rulers, to attack and stone the apostles;<br> but they learned of it and escaped to the towns of <b>Lystra</b> and Derbe <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../sherman/the childrens bible/paul and barnabas in foreign.htm</font><p><a href="/library/stalker/the_life_of_st_paul/chapter_vi_his_missionary_travels.htm"><span class="l">His Missionary Travels</span></a> <br><b>...</b> 86-87. <b>Lystra</b> and Derbe. 88. Return. 89-108. <b>...</b> When the inhabitants of <b>Lystra</b> mistook<br> them for gods, they called Barnabas Jupiter and Paul Mercury. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../stalker/the life of st paul/chapter vi his missionary travels.htm</font><p><a href="/library/tidwell/the_bible_period_by_period/chapter_xx_from_antioch_to.htm"><span class="l">From Antioch to the Destruction of Jerusalem.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> At Antioch he made a complete break with the Jews and at <b>Lystra</b> they stoned him<br> until they thought he was dead. <b>...</b> At <b>Lystra</b> he was joined by Timothy. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../tidwell/the bible period by period/chapter xx from antioch to.htm</font><a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/l/lystra.htm"><span class="l"><b>Lystra</b> (6 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> On recovering, Paul left for Derbe; but soon returned again, through <b>Lystra</b>,<br> encouraging the disciples there to steadfastness. <b>...</b><b>LYSTRA</b>. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/l/lystra.htm - 14k</font><p><a href="/topical/l/lycaonia.htm"><span class="l">Lycaonia (2 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> and the south of Galatia. It was a Roman province, and its chief towns were<br> Iconium, <b>Lystra</b>, and Derbe. The "speech of Lycaonia" (Acts <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/l/lycaonia.htm - 10k</font><p><a href="/topical/i/iconium.htm"><span class="l">Iconium (6 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 13:50, 51). Here they were persecuted by the Jews, and being driven from<br> the city, they fled to <b>Lystra</b>. They afterwards returned <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/i/iconium.htm - 12k</font><p><a href="/topical/e/eunice.htm"><span class="l">Eunice (1 Occurrence)</span></a><br><b>...</b> was prepared to give a welcome both to Paul and to the gospel proclaimed by him,<br> when the apostle in his first great missionary journey came to <b>Lystra</b>, one of <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/e/eunice.htm - 10k</font><p><a href="/topical/d/derbe.htm"><span class="l">Derbe (4 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Easton's Bible Dictionary A small town on the eastern part of the upland<br> plain of Lycaonia, about 20 miles from <b>Lystra</b>. Paul passed <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/d/derbe.htm - 15k</font><p><a href="/topical/i/ico'nium.htm"><span class="l">Ico'nium (6 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Acts 14:21 Having proclaimed good news also to that city, and having discipled many,<br> they turned back to <b>Lystra</b>, and Iconium, and Antioch, (See RSV). <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/i/ico'nium.htm - 7k</font><p><a href="/topical/t/timothy.htm"><span class="l">Timothy (28 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 1:5). We know nothing of his father but that he was a Greek (Acts 16:1). He is first<br> brought into notice at the time of Paul's second visit to <b>Lystra</b> (16:2 <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/t/timothy.htm - 38k</font><p><a href="/topical/g/galatia.htm"><span class="l">Galatia (6 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> regiones coincided roughly with the old national divisions Pisidia, Phrygia (including<br> Antioch, Iconium, Apollonia), Lycaonia (including Derbe, <b>Lystra</b> and a <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/g/galatia.htm - 23k</font><p><a href="/topical/p/pisidia.htm"><span class="l">Pisidia (2 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Pisidia. A military road, built by Augustus, and called the Royal Road,<br> led from Antioch to the sister colony of <b>Lystra</b>. According <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/p/pisidia.htm - 21k</font><p><a href="/topical/i/impotent.htm"><span class="l">Impotent (5 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> For the same condition of the <b>Lystra</b> lame man the word adunatos is used, which<br> is synonymous. In these cases it is the weakness of disease. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/i/impotent.htm - 9k</font><p><a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Lystra-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Lystra in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Paul-first-missionary-journey.html">What happened on Paul's first missionary journey? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Greek-gods-in-the-Bible.html">What Greek gods are mentioned in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div><span class="encheading">Lystra (6 Occurrences)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/14-6.htm">Acts 14:6</a></span><br />they became aware of it, and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, <span class="boldtext">Lystra</span>, Derbe, and the surrounding region.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/14-8.htm">Acts 14:8</a></span><br />At <span class="boldtext">Lystra</span> a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/14-21.htm">Acts 14:21</a></span><br />When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to <span class="boldtext">Lystra</span>, Iconium, and Antioch,<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/16-1.htm">Acts 16:1</a></span><br />He came to Derbe and <span class="boldtext">Lystra</span>: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/16-2.htm">Acts 16:2</a></span><br />The brothers who were at <span class="boldtext">Lystra</span> and Iconium gave a good testimony about him. <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_timothy/3-11.htm">2 Timothy 3:11</a></span><br />persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and <span class="boldtext">Lystra</span>. 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