# 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. Alternate translation: "they spoke loudly" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]])

# in the dialect of Lycaonia

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

# The gods have become like men and come down to us

These people believed that the gods needed to change their appearance in order to look like men. A large number of people believed Paul and Barnabas were their pagan gods who had come down from heaven. Alternate translation: "The gods have come down from heaven to us in the form of men" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])