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Text -- Acts 14:12 (NET)

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14:12 They began to call Barnabas Zeus and Paul Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

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Names, People and Places:

· Barnabas a man who was Paul's companion on several of his journeys

· Hermes a pagan god known as a messenger of the gods and associated with eloquence

· Paul a man from Tarsus who persecuted the church but became a missionary and writer of 13 Epistles

· Zeus the chief of the pagan Greek gods

Dictionary Themes and Topics: Barnabas | JUPITER | Mercurius | Zeus | Integrity | Lycaonia | Minister | Zeal | Paul | Homage | Lystra | PAUL, THE APOSTLE, 4 | ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, 8-12 | Mark, Gospel according to | GALATIANS, EPISTLE TO THE | HERMES (1) | MERCURY; MERCURIUS | LOIS | MERCURY | more

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NET Notes: Act 14:12 Hermes was a Greek god who (according to Greek mythology) was the messenger of the gods and the god of oratory (equivalent to the Roman god Mercury).

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