Acts 13:4-16

⁴These, indeed, then, having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, thence also they sailed to Cyprus,

⁵and having come unto Salamis, they declared the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they had also John as a ministrant;

⁶and having gone through the island unto Paphos, they found a certain magian, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name is Bar-Jesus;

⁷who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man; this one having called for Barnabas and Saul, did desire to hear the word of God,

⁸and there withstood them Elymas the magian — for so is his name interpreted — seeking to pervert the proconsul from the faith.

⁹And Saul — who also is Paul — having been filled with the Holy Spirit, and having looked stedfastly on him,

¹⁰said, 'O full of all guile, and all profligacy, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord?

¹¹and now, lo, a hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season;' and presently there fell upon him a mist and darkness, and he, going about, was seeking some to lead him by the hand;

¹²then the proconsul having seen what hath come to pass, did believe, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

¹³And those about Paul having set sail from Paphos, came to Perga of Pamphylia, and John having departed from them, did turn back to Jerusalem,

¹⁴and they having gone through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia, and having gone into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, they sat down,

¹⁵and after the reading of the law and of the prophets, the chief men of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, 'Men, brethren, if there be a word in you of exhortation unto the people — say on.'

¹⁶And Paul having risen, and having beckoned with the hand, said, 'Men, Israelites, and those fearing God, hearken: