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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Lycaonia
Inland Asia Minor, between Cappadocia and Galatia, with Iconium, Lystra and Derbe in it. Paul and Barnabas preached through it on the first journey. The crowd at Lystra shouted in "the speech of Lycaonia" when they took the two for Hermes and Zeus, and an inscription found near Lystra shows those two gods really were worshipped together there.
Inland Asia Minor, between Cappadocia and Galatia, with Iconium, Lystra and Derbe in it. Paul and Barnabas preached through it on the first journey. The crowd at Lystra shouted in "the speech of Lycaonia" when they took the two for Hermes and Zeus, and an inscription found near Lystra shows those two gods really were worshipped together there.
Lycaonia was an inland region of Asia Minor bordered by Cappadocia and Galatia, home to the cities of Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe. Paul and Barnabas preached across the region on Paul's first missionary journey, and Paul revisited it later (Acts 14:6-21; 16:1-6). Luke notes that the crowd at Lystra shouted in "the speech of Lycaonia" when they mistook Paul and Barnabas for Hermes and Zeus (Acts 14:11-12); an inscription discovered near the site of ancient Lystra referring to priests of Hermes alongside a stone image of Zeus shows this pairing of gods was a genuine local cult, giving real background to Luke's account.
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