Acts 13

¹Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers , Barnabas , Simeon who was called Niger , Lucius of Cyrene , Manaen a lifelong friend of Herod the tetrarch , and Saul .

²While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting , the Holy Spirit said , Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them .

³Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off .

⁴So , being sent out by the Holy Spirit , they went down to Seleucia , and from there they sailed to Cyprus .

⁵When they arrived at Salamis , they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews . And they had John to assist them .

⁶When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos , they came upon a certain magician , a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus .

⁷He was with the proconsul , Sergius Paulus , a man of intelligence , who summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God .

⁸But Elymas the magician ( for that is the meaning of his name ) opposed them , seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith .

⁹But Saul , who was also called Paul , filled with the Holy Spirit , looked intently at him

¹⁰and said , You son of the devil , you enemy of all righteousness , full of all deceit and villainy , will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord ?

¹¹And now , behold , the hand of the Lord is upon you , and you will be blind and unable to see the sun for a time . Immediately mist and darkness fell upon him , and he went about seeking people to lead him by the hand .

¹²Then the proconsul believed , when he saw what had occurred , for he was astonished at the teaching of the Lord .

¹³Now Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia . And John left them and returned to Jerusalem ,

¹⁴but they went on from Perga and came to Antioch in Pisidia . And on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down .

¹⁵After the reading from the Law and the Prophets , the rulers of the synagogue sent a message to them , saying , Brothers , if you have any word of encouragement for the people , say it.

¹⁶So Paul stood up , and motioning with his hand said : Men of Israel and you who fear God , listen .

¹⁷The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt , and with uplifted arm he led them out of it .

¹⁸And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness .

¹⁹And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan , he gave them their land as an inheritance .

²⁰All this took about 450 years . And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet .

²¹Then they asked for a king , and God gave them Saul the son of Kish , a man of the tribe of Benjamin , for forty years .

²²And when he had removed him , he raised up David to be their king , of whom he testified and said , I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart , who will do all my will .

²³Of this man’s offspring God has brought to Israel a Savior , Jesus , as he promised .

²⁴Before his coming , John had proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel .

²⁵And as John was finishing his course , he said , What do you suppose that I am ? I am not he. No, but behold , after me one is coming , the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie .

²⁶Brothers , sons of the family of Abraham , and those among you who fear God , to us has been sent the message of this salvation .

²⁷For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers , because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets , which are read every Sabbath , fulfilled them by condemning him.

²⁸And though they found in him no guilt worthy of death , they asked Pilate to have him executed .

²⁹And when they had carried out all that was written of him , they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb .

³⁰But God raised him from the dead ,

³¹and for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem , who are now his witnesses to the people .

³²And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers ,

³³this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus , as also it is written in the second Psalm , You are my Son , today I have begotten you .

³⁴And as for the fact that he raised him from the dead ,, no more to return to corruption , he has spoken in this way , I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David .

³⁵Therefore he says also in another psalm, You will not let your Holy One see corruption .

³⁶For David , after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation , fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption ,

³⁷but he whom God raised up did not see corruption .

³⁸Let it be known to you therefore , brothers , that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you ,

³⁹and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses .

⁴⁰Beware , therefore , lest what is said in the Prophets should come about :

⁴¹Look , you scoffers , be astounded and perish ; for I am doing a work in your days , a work that you will not believe , even if one tells it to you .

⁴²As they went out , the people begged that these things might be told them the next Sabbath .

⁴³And after the meeting of the synagogue broke up , many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas , who , as they spoke with them , urged them to continue in the grace of God .

⁴⁴The next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord .

⁴⁵But when the Jews saw the crowds , they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul , reviling him.

⁴⁶And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly , saying , It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you . Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life , behold , we are turning to the Gentiles .

⁴⁷For so the Lord has commanded us , saying, I have made you a light for the Gentiles , that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth .

⁴⁸And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord , and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed .

⁴⁹And the word of the Lord was spreading throughout the whole region .

⁵⁰But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city , stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas , and drove them out of their district .

⁵¹But they shook off the dust from their feet against them and went to Iconium .

⁵²And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit .