When Miracles Reveal the Human Hunger for God

At Lystra, a lame man's healing ignited a crowd's conviction that Paul and Barnabas were gods incarnate. Maclaren observes that this seemingly absurd response actually reveals something profound: the miracle, far from being motiveless decoration in Luke's narrative, became the essential fuse that explains everything that follows—the deification, the priests, the stones. Without it, the account collapses into chaos. Yet the crowd's theological mistake—seeing divine incarnation where there was only divine power—exposes a universal human longing.…