Lystra

Lystra is a city of Lycaonia recalled in the Pauline correspondence as one of the towns where the apostle had endured persecution. The narrative account in Acts is not carried in this scope; Lystra appears here only through Paul's later retrospective to Timothy.

Persecution and Deliverance at Lystra

Writing to Timothy and grouping Lystra with Antioch and Iconium, Paul lists it among the places where he suffered: "persecutions, sufferings; what things befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: and out of them all the Lord delivered me" (2Tim 3:11). The town stands as a marker of apostolic hardship and of the Lord's deliverance from it.