The experience of Paul and Bar­nabas in Iconium (14:1–7) is comparable to their experience in Pisidian Antioch. Paul and Barnabas go “as usual into the Jewish synagogue,” and initially they receive a positive response from those who are present (14:1). But some of the Jews again decide to oppose them and those who have believed (14:2). Luke’s description concerning “a plot . . . among both Gentiles and Jews, together with their leaders [or “rulers”; Greek tois archousin], to mistreat them and stone them” (14:5) recalls…