unfoldingWord_en_tn/act/14/11.md

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what Paul had done

This refers to Paul's healing the crippled man.

they raised their voice

To raise the voice is to speak loudly. AT: "they spoke loudly" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)

The gods have come down to us

A large number of people believed Paul and Barnabas were their pagan gods who had come down from heaven. AT: "The gods have come down from heaven to us" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit)

in the dialect of Lycaonia

"in their own Lycaonian language." The people of Lystra spoke Lycaonian and also Greek.

in the form of men

These people believed that the gods needed to change their appearance in order to look like men.