Acts 14:12

14:12 They began to call ¹  Barnabas Zeus ²  and Paul Hermes, ³  because he was the chief speaker.

¹ tn The imperfect verb ἐκάλουν (ekaloun) has been translated as an ingressive imperfect.

² sn Zeus was the chief Greek deity, worshiped throughout the Greco-Roman world (known to the Romans as Jupiter).

³ sn 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).