13:1Now there were in the church which was at Antioch prophets and teachers, among whom were Barnabas, and Simon who was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manahen, who was the foster-brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul. 13:2And while they were ministering to the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said to them: "Set apart for me Saul and Barnabas for the work to which I have taken them up." 13:3Then, fasting and praying, and laying their hands on them, they sent them away. 13:4And they indeed, sent by the Holy Spirit, went away to Seleucia: and from there they sailed to Cyprus. 13:5And when they had come to Salamis, they were preaching the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews.
13:5And they also had John in service. 13:6And when they had walked 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, a prudent man. 13:7This man, Barnabas and Saul having been summoned, was longing to hear the word of God. 13:8But Elymas the magician (for so his name is interpreted) was resisting them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith. 13:9But Saul, who is also Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, gazing at him, said: "O you full of all deceit and all trickery, son of the devil, enemy of all justice, you do not cease to overturn the straight ways of the Lord.
13:11And now, look, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a time." 13:11And at once there fell upon him mist and darkness: and going round he was seeking someone who might give him a hand. 13:12Then the proconsul, when he had seen what was done, believed, marvelling at the teaching of the Lord. 13:13And when Paul and those who were with him had sailed from Paphos, they came to Perga of Pamphylia. 13:13But John, departing from them, returned to Jerusalem. 13:14They, however, passing through Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia: and having gone into the synagogue on the day of the sabbaths, they sat down.
13:15And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying: "Men, brothers, if there is in you any word of exhortation for the people, speak." 13:16And Paul, rising, and with his hand signalling for silence, said: "Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen: the God of the people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they were sojourners in the land of Egypt, and with a lofty arm led them out of it, and for a time of forty years bore with their ways in the desert. 13:19And destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he distributed their land to them by lot, after about four hundred and fifty years: and after these things he gave judges, until Samuel the prophet.
13:21And from then they asked for a king: and God gave them Saul, son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years: and, he having been removed, he raised up David as king for them: to whom, bearing witness, he said: 'I have found David, son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my wishes.' 13:23Of this man's seed God, according to the promise, has brought out for Israel a saviour, Jesus, John having preached, before the face of his coming, a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. 13:25And when John was completing his course, he was saying: 'Whom you think me to be, I am not he: but look, there comes after me one the shoes of whose feet I am not worthy to loosen.' 13:26Men, brothers, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you the word of this salvation has been sent.
13:27For those who lived in Jerusalem, and its rulers, not knowing this man, and the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled them by judging him, and finding no cause of death in him, they asked of Pilate that they might kill him. 13:29And when they had completed all things that had been written about him, taking him down from the tree, they placed him in a tomb. 13:30But God raised him from the dead on the third day: who was seen for many days by those who had gone up together with him from Galilee to Jerusalem: who until now are his witnesses to the people.
13:32And we announce to you that promise which was made to our fathers: that God has fulfilled it for our children, raising up Jesus again, as also it has been written in the second psalm: 'You are my Son, today I have begotten you.' 13:34And that he raised him from the dead, no longer now to return to corruption, he has said thus: 'For I will give you the holy, faithful things of David.' 13:35And therefore he also says elsewhere: 'You will not give your holy one to see corruption.' 13:36For David, when he had served in his own generation, by the will of God fell asleep: and was laid beside his fathers, and saw corruption.
13:37But he whom God raised from the dead did not see corruption. 13:38Let it be known therefore to you, men, brothers, that through this man the remission of sins is announced to you, and from all the things by which you could not be justified in the law of Moses, in him everyone who believes is justified. 13:40Watch out, then, that there does not come upon you what has been said in the prophets: [Look, you scorners, and marvel, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you will not believe, if anyone tells it to you.]" And as they were going out, they were asking that on the following sabbath they might speak these words to them.
13:43And when the synagogue had been dismissed, many of the Jews, and of the worshipping newcomers, followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, were urging them to remain in the grace of God. 13:44But on the following sabbath almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God. 13:45But the Jews, seeing the crowds, were filled with jealousy, and were speaking against the things which were being said by Paul, blaspheming. 13:46Then Paul and Barnabas said boldly: "To you it was necessary first to speak the word of God: but since you push it away, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, look, we turn to the Gentiles.
13:47For so the Lord has commanded us: 'I have set you for a light of the Gentiles, that you may be for salvation as far as the end of the earth.'" 13:48And the Gentiles, hearing this, rejoiced, and were glorifying the word of the Lord: and as many as had been ordained beforehand to eternal life believed. 13:49And the word of the Lord was being spread through the whole region. 13:50But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the first men of the city, and roused a persecution against Paul and Barnabas: and they threw them out of their borders. 13:51But they, having shaken off the dust of their feet against them, came to Iconium.
13:52The disciples too were being filled with joy, and with the Holy Spirit.