Paul and Barnabas at Lystra (루스트라에서 전도하는 바울과 바나바)

 

 

 

 

(행 14:11)

무리가 바울이 한 일을 보고 루가오니아 방언으로 소리 질러 이르되 신들이 사람의 형상으로 우리 가운데 내려오셨다 하여

11 And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adriaen van Stalbemt 1580 – 1662

Paul and Barnabas at Lystra

oil on copper (33 × 45 cm)

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Adriaen van Stalbemt biography

 

This work is linked to Acts 14:11

 

On their missionary journey through Asia Minor (i.e. Turkey - a Greek colony in ancient times) the apostles Paul and Barnabas arrive in the city of Lystra, where a crippled man hears Paul preach. Paul looks the cripple in the eye, sees the seed of faith there and commands the man to stand up, which he does.

The witnesses to the miracle assume the strangers to be gods. Paul must be Hermes and Barnabas Zeus, or, following the King James Version, Mercury and Jupiter.

At once the Greek prepare to bring offerings to their gods, but Paul and Barnabas explain that they are mere mortals and object to being treated as idols. They encourage the Lystrians to switch to their one god.

 

 

 

 

 

Raphael 1483 – 1520

The Sacrifce at Lystra

bodycolour on paper on canvas (350 × 560 cm) — 1515-1516

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Raphael biography

 

This work is linked to Acts 14:11

 

Paul and his companion Barnabas tear their clothes. They do so because they are appalled by the sacrifices the citizens of Lystra want to bring them. The Lystrians view them as gods after Peter healed a crippled man. Barnabas appeals to the young man to stop the man with the ax.

The work is a design for a tapestry in the Sistine Chapel.