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Lystra

Asia Minor · New Testament · 6 verses

A city in Lycaonia in central Asia Minor, the hometown of Timothy. The name appears in Acts, 2 Timothy in the King James text.

About Lystra

A city in Lycaonia in central Asia Minor, the hometown of Timothy.

Its place in the story

In Lystra Paul healed a man lame from birth, and the crowd tried to worship Paul and Barnabas as gods. Later Paul was stoned there and left for dead, yet survived. Timothy came from Lystra and joined Paul.

Lystra in Scripture (KJV)

“They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:”

Acts 14:6 (KJV)

“And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked:”

Acts 14:8 (KJV)

“And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,”

Acts 14:21 (KJV)

“Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:”

Acts 16:1 (KJV)

“Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.”

Acts 16:2 (KJV)

“Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.”

2 Timothy 3:11 (KJV)

Where it leads

In Lystra Paul healed a lame man and refused worship, pointing the people to the living God.

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