Deeds (Act) of Apostles 13:1-27

¹And prophets and doctors were in the church that was at Antioch, in which Barnabas, and Simon, that was called Black, and Lucius Cyreneus, and Manaen, that was the suckling-frère of Herod tetrarch, that is, prince of the fourth part, and Saul were.

²And when they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said to them, Set apart ye to me Saul and Barnabas, into the work to which I have taken them.

³Then they fasted, and prayed, and laid hands on them, and let them go.

⁴But they were sent of the Holy Ghost, and went forth to Seleucia, and from thence they went by boat to Cyprus.

⁵And when they came to Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of Jews; and they had also John in ministry or in service.

⁶And when they had walked by all the isle to Paphos, they found a man, a witch, or they found some man witch, a false prophet, a Jew, to whom the name was Barjesus,

⁷that was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, a prudent man. This called Barnabas and Paul, and desired to hear the word of God.

⁸But Elymas the witch withstood them; for his name is expounded so; and he sought to turn away the proconsul from belief.

⁹But Saul, which is said also Paul, was filled with the Holy Ghost, and beheld into him,

¹⁰and said, A! thou full of all guile, and all falseness, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all rightwise-ness, thou leavest not to turn upside-down, or to subvert, or to destroy, the rightful ways of the Lord.

¹¹And now lo! the hand of the Lord is on thee, and thou shalt be blind, and not seeing the sun into a time. And anon, a mist and darkness felled down on him; and he went about, and sought him that should give the hand to him.

¹²Then the proconsul, when he had seen the deed, believed, wondering on the teaching of the Lord.

¹³And when from Paphos Paul had gone by boat, and they that were with him, they came to Perga of Pamphylia; but John departed from them, and turned again to Jerusalem.

¹⁴And they went from Perga, and came to Antioch of Pisidia; and they entered into the synagogue in the day of sabbaths, and sat.

¹⁵And after the reading of the law and of the prophets, the princes of the synagogue sent to them, and said, Brethren, if any word of exhortation to the people is in you, say ye.

¹⁶And Paul rose, and with hand bade silence, and said, Men of Israel, and ye that dread God, hear ye.

¹⁷God of the people of Israel chose our fathers, and enhanced the people, when they were comelings in the land of Egypt, and in an high arm he led them out of it;

¹⁸and by the time of forty years he suffered their manners in desert.

¹⁹And he destroyed seven folks in the land of Canaan, and by sort parted to them their land,

²⁰as after four hundred and fifty years. And after these things he gave doomsmen, till to Samuel, the prophet.

²¹And from that time they asked a king, and God gave to them Saul, the son of Cis, a man of the lineage of Benjamin, by forty years.

²²And when he was done away, he raised to them David the king, to whom he bare witnessing, and said, I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after mine heart, which shall do all my will.

²³Of whose seed by the promise God hath led out to Israel a Saviour Jesus,

²⁴when John preached before the face of his coming the baptism of penance to all the people of Israel.

²⁵But when John ful filled his course, he said, I am not he, whom ye deem me to be; but lo! he cometh after me, and I am not worthy to do off or to unbind the shoes of his feet.

²⁶Brethren, and sons of the kind of Abraham, and which that in you dread God, to you the word of health is sent.

²⁷For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and princes of it, that knew not this Jesus, and the voices of prophets, that by every sabbath be read, deemed, and fulfilled;