Acts 13:2-20

²As they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart to me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them!”

³Then, having fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them off.

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

⁵And upon arriving in Salamis, they started proclaiming the Word of God in the synagogues of the Jews (also they had John as assistant).

⁶Now when they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew named Bar-Jesus,

⁷who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, really wanting to hear the Word of God.

⁸But the sorcerer Elymas (for so his name is translated) opposed them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

⁹Then Saul, also called Paul, filled with Holy Spirit and looking intently at him,

¹⁰said: “O full of all deceit and all trickery, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness! Will you not stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

¹¹Well now, the Lord's hand is against you and you will be blind, not seeing the sun until next season!” Immediately mist and darkness engulfed him, and he started going around looking for someone to lead him by the hand.

¹²Then the proconsul believed, when he saw what had happened, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

¹³Then Paul and his party set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphilia (here John left them and returned to Jerusalem).

¹⁴Going on from Perga they arrived in Antioch of Pisidia; and entering the synagogue on the Sabbath day, they sat down.

¹⁵After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue leaders sent to them, saying, “Men, brothers, if you have a word of encouragement for the people, do speak.”

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

¹⁷The God of this people chose our fathers, and prospered the people during their sojourn in the land of Egypt, and brought them out of it with an uplifted arm.

¹⁸For a period of about forty years He put up with them in the wilderness.

¹⁹And when He had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He gave them possession of their land.

²⁰After these things, He gave judges for about four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.