Acts 13:1-44 ▼

1 Now there were prophets and teachers in Antioch being there in the church: Both Barnabas and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

2 Now in their ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Now set apart unto Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have summoned them.”

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

4 Indeed, therefore, having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and they sailed from there to Cyprus.

5 And having come into Salamis, they began proclaiming the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they also had John as a helper.

6 Now having passed through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a man—a certain a magician, a Jewish false prophet—whose name was Bar-Jesus,

7 who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man, having summoned Barnabas and Saul, desired to hear the word of God.

8 But Elymas the magician (for his name is translated thus) was opposing them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith.

9 And Saul, the one also called Paul, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, having looked intently upon him,

10 said, “O full of all deceit and all craftiness, son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

11 And now behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season.” And immediately mist and darkness fell upon him, and going about, he was seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

12 Then the proconsul, having seen that having happened, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

13 And those around Paul, having sailed from Paphos, came to Perga of Pamphylia. But John, having departed from them, returned to Jerusalem.

14 Now having passed through from Perga, they came to Antioch of Pisidia, and having gone into the synagogue on the day of the Sabbaths, they sat down.

15 And after the reading of the Law and of the Prophets, the synagogue rulers sent to them, saying, “Men, brothers, if there is any word of exhortation among you? toward the people, speak.”

16 And Paul, having risen up and having motioned with the hand, said, “Men, Israelites, and those fearing God, listen:

17 The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people in the sojourn in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm He brought them out of it,

18 and for a period of about forty years He endured their ways in the wilderness,

19 and having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He gave as an inheritance their land—

20 in about four hundred and fifty years. And after these things, He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

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

22 And having removed him, He raised up David to them as king, to whom He also said, having testified: ‘I have found David the son of Jesse a man according to My heart, who will do all My will.’

23 Of the seed of this man, according to promise, God brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus—

24 John having proclaimed before the face of His coming a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

25 And as John was fulfilling the course, he was saying, ‘Whom do you? suppose me to be? I am not He, but behold, He comes after me of whom I am not worthy to untie a sandal of the feet.’

26 Men, brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you? fearing God, to us the message of this salvation was sent forth.

27 For those dwelling in Jerusalem and their rulers, not having known Him and the voices of the prophets that are being read on every Sabbath, having condemned Him, they fulfilled them.

28 And having found no cause of death, they begged Pilate to put Him to death.

29 And when they finished all the things having been written about Him, having taken Him down from the tree, they put Him in a tomb.

30 But God raised Him out from the dead,

31 who appeared for many days to those having come up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now His witnesses to the people.

32 And we preach the gospel to you?, the promise having been made to the fathers,

33 that God has fulfilled this to us their children, having raised up Jesus, as it has also been written in the second psalm: ‘You are My Son; today I have begotten You.’

34 And that He raised Him out from the dead, no more being about to return to decay, He spoke thus: ‘I will give to you? the holy blessings, the faithful ones, of David.’

35 So also, He says in another place: ‘You will not allow Your Holy One to see decay.’

36 For indeed David, having served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was added to his fathers, and he saw decay.

37 But the One God raised up did not see decay.

38 Therefore be it known to you?, men, brothers, that through this One forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you?.

39 And in Him everyone believing is justified from all things from which you? were not able to be justified in the law of Moses.

40 Take heed, therefore, lest that having been said in the prophets might come about:

41 ‘Behold, scoffers, and wonder and perish; for I am working a work in your? days, a work that you? would never believe, even if one should declare it to you?.’”

42 And on their having departed, they were begging these words to be spoken to them on the next Sabbath.

43 And the synagogue having been dismissed, many of the Jews and worshiping converts followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, kept persuading them to continue in the grace of God.

44 And on the coming Sabbath, almost all the city was gathered together to hear the word of the Lord.