Acts 13:1-8 ▼

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.