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# Acts 14

Acts 14 is chapter 14 of 28 in the Acts of the Apostles. Here are all 27 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Paul and Barnabas preach in Iconium and Lystra. Paul heals a cripple. They are taken for gods. Paul is stoned. They preach in Derbe and Perge.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Acts 14 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Now it happened in Iconium that they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and they spoke in such a way that a copious multitude of both Jews and Greeks believed.
2. Yet truly, the Jews who were unbelieving had incited and enflamed the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.
3. And so, they remained for a long time, acting faithfully in the Lord, offering testimony to the Word of his grace, providing signs and wonders done by their hands.
4. Then the multitude of the city was divided. And certainly, some were with the Jews, yet truly others were with the Apostles.
5. Now when an assault had been planned by the Gentiles and the Jews with their leaders, so that they might treat them with contempt and stone them,
6. they, realizing this, fled together to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the entire surrounding region. And they were evangelizing in that place.
7. And a certain man was sitting at Lystra, disabled in his feet, lame from his mother’s womb, who had never walked.
8. This man heard Paul speaking. And Paul, gazing at him intently, and perceiving that he had faith, so that he might be healed,
9. said with a loud voice, “Stand upright upon your feet!” And he leaped up and walked around.
10. But when the crowds had seen what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice in the Lycaonian language, saying, “The gods, having taken the likenesses of men, have descended to us!”
11. And they called Barnabas, ‘Jupiter,’ yet truly they called Paul, ‘Mercury,’ because he was the lead speaker.
12. Also, the priest of Jupiter, who was outside the city, in front of the gate, bringing in oxen and garlands, was willing to offer sacrifice with the people.
13. And as soon as the Apostles, Barnabas and Paul, had heard this, tearing their tunics, they leapt into the crowd, crying out
14. and saying: “Men, why would you do this? We also are mortals, men like yourselves, preaching to you to be converted, from these vain things, to the living God, who made heaven and earth and the sea and all that is in them.
15. In previous generations, he permitted all nations to walk in their own ways.
16. But certainly, he did not leave himself without testimony, doing good from heaven, giving rains and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness.”
17. And by saying these things, they were barely able to restrain the crowds from immolating to them.
18. Now certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium arrived there. And having persuaded the crowd, they stoned Paul and dragged him outside of the city, thinking him to be dead.
19. But as the disciples were standing around him, he got up and entered the city. And the next day, he set out with Barnabas for Derbe.
20. And when they had evangelized that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch,
21. strengthening the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them that they should remain always in the faith, and that it is necessary for us to enter into the kingdom of God through many tribulations.
22. And when they had established priests for them in each church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, in whom they believed.
23. And traveling by way of Pisidia, they arrived in Pamphylia.
24. And having spoken the word of the Lord in Perga, they went down into Attalia.
25. And from there, they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work which they had now accomplished.
26. And when they had arrived and had gathered together the church, they related what great things God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
27. And they remained for no small amount of time with the disciples.

## Acts 14 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Factum est autem Iconii, ut simul introirent in synagogam Judæorum, et loquerentur, ita ut crederet Judæorum et Græcorum copiosa multitudo.
2. Qui vero increduli fuerunt Judæi, suscitaverunt et ad iracundiam concitaverunt animas gentium adversus fratres.
3. Multo igitur tempore demorati sunt, fiducialiter agentes in Domino, testimonium perhibente verbo gratiæ suæ, dante signa et prodigia fieri per manus eorum.
4. Divisa est autem multitudo civitatis: et quidam quidem erant cum Judæis, quidam vero cum Apostolis.
5. Cum autem factus esset impetus gentilium et Judæorum cum principibus suis, ut contumeliis afficerent, et lapidarent eos,
6. intelligentes confugerunt ad civitates Lycaoniæ Lystram et Derben, et universam in circuitu regionem, et ibi evangelizantes erant.
7. Et quidam vir Lystris infirmus pedibus sedebat, claudus ex utero matris suæ, qui numquam ambulaverat.
8. Hic audivit Paulum loquentem. Qui intuitus eum, et videns quia fidem haberet ut salvus fieret,
9. dixit magna voce: Surge super pedes tuos rectus. Et exilivit, et ambulabat.
10. Turbæ autem cum vidissent quod fecerat Paulus, levaverunt vocem suam lycaonice, dicentes: Dii similes facti hominibus descenderunt ad nos.
11. Et vocabant Barnabam Jovem, Paulum vero Mercurium: quoniam ipse erat dux verbi.
12. Sacerdos quoque Jovis, qui erat ante civitatem, tauros et coronas ante januas afferens, cum populis volebat sacrificare.
13. Quod ubi audierunt Apostoli, Barnabas et Paulus, conscissis tunicis suis exilierunt in turbas, clamantes
14. et dicentes: Viri, quid hæc facitis? et nos mortales sumus, similes vobis homines, annuntiantes vobis ab his vanis converti ad Deum vivum, qui fecit cælum, et terram, et mare, et omnia quæ in eis sunt:
15. qui in præteritis generationibus dimisit omnes gentes ingredi vias suas.
16. Et quidem non sine testimonio semetipsum reliquit benefaciens de cælo, dans pluvias et tempora fructifera, implens cibo et lætitia corda nostra.
17. Et hæc dicentes, vix sedaverunt turbas ne sibi immolarent.
18. Supervenerunt autem quidam ab Antiochia et Iconio Judæi: et persuasis turbis, lapidantesque Paulum, traxerunt extra civitatem, existimantes eum mortuum esse.
19. Circumdantibus autem eum discipulis, surgens intravit civitatem, et postera die profectus est cum Barnaba in Derben.
20. Cumque evangelizassent civitati illi, et docuissent multos, reversi sunt Lystram, et Iconium, et Antiochiam,
21. confirmantes animas discipulorum, exhortantesque ut permanerent in fide: et quoniam per multas tribulationes oportet nos intrare in regnum Dei.
22. Et cum constituissent illis per singulas ecclesias presbyteros, et orassent cum jejunationibus, commendaverunt eos Domino, in quem crediderunt.
23. Transeuntesque Pisidiam, venerunt in Pamphyliam,
24. et loquentes verbum Domini in Perge, descenderunt in Attaliam:
25. et inde navigaverunt Antiochiam, unde erant traditi gratiæ Dei in opus quod compleverunt.
26. Cum autem venissent, et congregassent ecclesiam, retulerunt quanta fecisset Deus cum illis, et quia aperuisset gentibus ostium fidei.
27. Morati sunt autem tempus non modicum cum discipulis.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 699: The Name, Titles, and Symbols of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1507: Its Foundations in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 32: Ways of Coming to Know God ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1147: How is the Liturgy Celebrated? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 556: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2847: "And Lead Us not into Temptation" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Read at Mass (US)

- Mon, Apr 26, 2027: Monday of the Fifth Week of Easter — First Reading, Acts 14:5-18
- Tue, Apr 27, 2027: Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Easter — First Reading, Acts 14:19-28
- Sun, May 14, 2028 (computed): Fifth Sunday of Easter — First Reading, Acts 14:21-27
- Mon, May 15, 2028 (computed): Monday of the Fifth Week of Easter — First Reading, Acts 14:5-18

1 more date through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).