Acts:13

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* Now there were in Antioch , in the assembly which was [there ], prophets and teachers : Barnabas , and Simeon who was called Niger , and Lucius the Cyrenian , and Manaen , foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch , and Saul . * And as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting , the Holy Spirit said , Separate me now Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them . * Then , having fasted and prayed , and having laid [their ] hands on them , they let [them ] go . * They therefore , having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit , went down to Seleucia , and thence sailed away to Cyprus . * And being in Salamis , they announced the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews . And they had John also as [their ] attendant . * And having passed through the whole island as far as Paphos , they found a certain man a magician , a false prophet , a Jew , whose name was Bar-jesus , * who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus , an intelligent man . He , having called Barnabas and Saul to [him ], desired to hear the word of God . * But Elymas the magician (for so his name is by interpretation ) opposed them , seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith . * But Saul , who also [is ] Paul , filled with [the ] Holy Spirit , fixing his eyes upon him , * said , O full of all deceit and all craft : son of [the ] devil , enemy of all righteousness ; wilt thou not cease perverting the right paths of [the ] Lord ? * And now behold , [the ] Lord 's hand [is ] upon thee , and thou shalt be blind , not seeing the sun for a season . And immediately there fell upon him a mist and darkness ; and going about he sought persons who should lead him by the hand . * Then the proconsul , seeing what had happened , believed , being amazed at the teaching of the Lord . * And having sailed from Paphos , Paul and his company came to Perga of Pamphylia ; and John separated from them and returned to Jerusalem . * But they , passing through from Perga , came to Antioch of Pisidia ; and entering into the synagogue on the sabbath day they sat down . * And after the reading of the law and the prophets , the rulers of the synagogue sent to them , saying , Brethren , if ye have any word of exhortation to the people , speak . * And Paul , rising up and making a sign with the hand , said , Israelites , and ye that fear God , hearken . * The God of this people Israel chose our fathers , and exalted the people in their sojourn in [the ] land of Egypt , and with a high arm brought them out of it , * and for a time of about forty years he nursed them in the desert . * And having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan , he gave them their land as an inheritance . * And after these things he gave [them ] judges till Samuel the prophet , [to the end of ] about four hundred and fifty years . * And then they asked for a king , and God gave to them Saul , son of Kis , a man of the tribe of Benjamin , during forty years . * And having removed him he raised up to them David for king , of whom also bearing witness he said , I have found David , the son of Jesse , a man after my heart , who shall do all my will . * Of this man 's seed according to promise has God brought to Israel a Saviour , Jesus ; * John having proclaimed before the face of his entry [among the people ] [the ] baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel . * And as John was fulfilling his course he said , Whom do ye suppose that I am ? I am not [he ]. But behold , there comes one after me , the sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to loose . * Brethren , sons of Abraham 's race , and those who among you fear God , to you has the word of this salvation been sent : * for those who dwell in Jerusalem , and their rulers , not having known him , have fulfilled also the voices of the prophets which are read on every sabbath , [by ] judging [him ]. * And having found no cause of death [in him ], they begged of Pilate that he might be slain . * And when they had fulfilled all things written concerning him , they took him down from the cross and put him in a sepulchre ; * but God raised him from among [the ] dead , * who appeared for many days to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem , who are now his witnesses to the people . * And we declare unto you the glad tidings of the promise made to the fathers , * that God has fulfilled this to us their children , having raised up Jesus ; as it is also written in the second psalm , Thou art my Son : this day have I begotten thee . * But that he raised him from among [the ] dead , no more to return to corruption , he spoke thus : I will give to you the faithful mercies of David . * Wherefore also he says in another , Thou wilt not suffer thy gracious one to see corruption . * For David indeed , having in his own generation ministered to the will of God , fell asleep , and was added to his fathers and saw corruption . * But he whom God raised up did not see corruption . * Be it known unto you , therefore , brethren , that through this man remission of sins is preached to you , * and from all things from which ye could not be justified in the law of Moses , in him every one that believes is justified . * See therefore that that which is spoken in the prophets do not come upon [you ], * Behold , ye despisers , and wonder and perish ; for I work a work in your days , a work which ye will in no wise believe if one declare it to you . * And as they went out they begged that these words might be spoken to them the ensuing sabbath . * And the congregation of the synagogue having broken up , many of the Jews and of the worshipping proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas , who speaking to them , persuaded them to continue in the grace of God . * And on the coming sabbath almost all the city was gathered together to hear the word of God . * But the Jews , seeing the crowds , were filled with envy , and contradicted the things said by Paul , [contradicting and ] speaking injuriously . * And Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly and said , It was necessary that the word of God should be first spoken to you ; but , since ye thrust it from you , and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life , lo , we turn to the nations ; * for thus has the Lord enjoined us : I have set thee for a light of the nations , that thou shouldest be for salvation to the end of the earth . * And [those of ] the nations , hearing it , rejoiced , and glorified the word of the Lord , and believed , as many as were ordained to eternal life . * And the word of the Lord was carried through the whole country . * But the Jews excited the women of the upper classes who were worshippers , and the first people of the city , and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas , and cast them out of their coasts . * But they , having shaken off the dust of their feet against them , came to Iconium . * And the disciples were filled with joy and [the ] Holy Spirit .

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