"They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the town, thinking he was dead.

[Joe Chi Minh]

The disciples came crowding round him but, as they did so, he stood up and went back to the town. The next day, he and Barnabas went off to Derbe." Acts 14: 19-

How about that! " ...... but, as they did so, he stood up and went back to the town." Not even a separate sentence. So bald and matter of fact, I doubled up with laughter when I read it. No furtive sloping off into hiding, or even moving straight on to the next town, as the Holy Spirit sometimes counselled them, in accordance with Christ's words on the subject of persecution, generally. No. "..... he stood up and went back to the town."!!

You can just imagine the hullabaloo neo-Republican trolls would have made about that, if Paul had been one of their "disciples", can't you? A couple of highly trained, special-services snipers killed two untrained, young pirates, and it was the Battle of Midway.

It's one of the amazing things about the scriptures, isn't it. You can read the same passage a hundred times and spot something you'd missed previously.