# 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/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. Alternate translation: "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.