The chief and father-figure of the gods of Olympus, known to the Greeks as 'Zeus' and to the Romans as 'Jupiter', whose messenger or spokesman known as 'Hermes' to the Greeks and 'Mercury' to the Romans. During the First Journey of Paul in the years 46-8, he and Barnabas had arrived at Lystra, a city of Lycaonia in Pisidia, in the Roman province of Galatia, now central Asia Minor. Here there was no synagogue, so Paul preached in the open air. There was a man outside the Temple, a cripple ...