Bible Atlas · Lycaonia
Lystra, in Lycaonia, a stop on two of Paul's journeys, on the map, with its verses.
A town that first mistook Paul for a god, then stoned him and left him for dead. He had healed a man lame from birth, "Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked" (Acts 14:10); days later the crowd, turned by his enemies, "having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead" (14:19). He got up and went back in. Lystra was also young Timothy's home.
In Lycaonia, in the Bible's day. Shown at 37.60° N, 32.34° E.
They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:
Acts 14:6And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,
Acts 14:21Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:
Acts 16:1Lystra was in Lycaonia, in the Bible's day. The atlas shows it at 37.60° N, 32.34° E.
Lystra is on Paul's first missionary journey (stop 8 and 10 of 15) and Paul's second missionary journey (stop 3 of 17).