Acts 13:5-31

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.

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

²²And removing him He raised up for them David as king, about whom He gave witness and said, ‘I have found David son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

²³God, from this man's seed, according to promise, has brought Salvation to Israel,

²⁴John having heralded beforehand, in advance of His coming, a baptism of repentance to Israel.

²⁵Well, as John was fulfilling his course, he said: ‘Whom do you suppose me to be? No I am not—but indeed He comes after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’

²⁶“Men, brothers, sons of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God: to you the word of this salvation has been sent.

²⁷The Jerusalem dwellers and their rulers, understanding neither Him nor the voices of the prophets that are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning Him.

²⁸Though they found no cause for death, they asked Pilate to have Him executed.

²⁹When they had fulfilled all things that were written about Him, they took Him down from the cross and placed Him in a tomb.

³⁰But God raised Him from the dead;

³¹and for many days He was seen by those who came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are His witnesses to the people.