Acts 14:8-13

In Lystra sat a man who could not use his feet, lame from birth, who had never walked.  This man was listening to Paul as he was speaking. When Paul stared intently at him and saw he had faith to be healed,  he said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet.” And the man leaped up and began walking.  So when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in human form!”  They began to call Barnabas Zeus and Paul Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.  The priest of the temple of Zeus, located just outside the city, brought bulls and garlands to the city gates; he and the crowds wanted to offer sacrifices to them.

In Acts 14:14-18 (NKJV), Paul and Barnabas respond: "But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard this, they tore their clothes and ran in among the multitude, crying out and saying, 'Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men with the same nature as you, and preach to you that you should turn from these useless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them, who in bygone generations allowed all nations to walk in their own ways. Nevertheless He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good, gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.' And with these sayings they could scarcely restrain the multitudes from sacrificing to them". Sometimes old habits die hard, especially when it comes to idolatry.