St. Barnabas 23. Lystra and St. Timothy. We last left St. Barnabas and St. Paul in Lystra ( Ac 14:6 ), preaching the Gospel in the streets. As it turns out, some of the troublemakers from Antioch of Pisidia and Iconium had followed Barnabas and Paul to Lystra, and Acts tells us specifically they were Jewish ( Ac 14:19 ). One would think that preaching about the “living God who made heaven and earth” ( Ac 14:15 ) would be applauded by any good Jew, but apparently they were just out for blood. It may have been that day, or perhaps weeks later, but at some point the people of Lystra and these troublemakers rose up in anger and stoned Paul, then dragged him out of the city, presumably now dead ( Ac 14:19 ). Stonings normally happened outside towns and cities (better to find rocks and dispose of the corpse), so this implies a raging crowd killing Paul right on the spot in the streets and then dumping his body outside of town. Paul includes this event in a litany of woes when a d...