- 12:25And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having completed the dispensing; and they took along with them John, who was surnamed Mark.
- 13:1Now there were in Antioch, in the local church, prophets and teachers: Barnabas and Simeon, who was called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen, the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
- 13:2And as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Set apart for Me now Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.
- 13:3Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
- 13:4They then, having been sent out by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia; and from there they sailed away to Cyprus.
- 13:5And when they were in Salamis, they announced the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they also had John as their attendant.
- 13:6And when they had passed through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a certain man, a magician and Jewish false prophet, whose name was Bar-jesus,
- 13:7Who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man; the latter called Barnabas and Saul to him and sought to hear the word of God.
- 13:8But Elymas the magician (for so his name is translated) opposed them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.
- 13:9But Saul, who is also Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him
- 13:10And said, O you who are full of all deceit and all unscrupulousness, son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?
- 13:11And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a time. And instantly a mist and a darkness fell upon him; and he went about and sought some to lead him by the hand.
- 13:12Then the proconsul, seeing what had happened, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.