Where Paul healed a man lame from birth and the crowd took him and Barnabas for the gods Hermes and Zeus — then, swayed, stoned Paul. Lystra was the hometown of Timothy. The mound was identified by an inscribed Roman altar naming the colony.
- Where it is
- Central Turkey (near Konya)
- Scripture
- Acts 14:8-20
What the evidence confirmsAn inscription confirms the mound's identity as the Roman colony of Lystra.
What it does not proveThe healing, the acclamation and the stoning are narrative episodes the site cannot verify.
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