13:1 Now there were prophets and teachers at Antioch, in the church that was there: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
13:2 While they were ①serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set Barnabas and Saul apart for Me for the work to which I have called them.”
▷ ①Lit performing ministry to
13:3 Then, when they had fasted, prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
13:4 So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and from there they sailed to Cyprus.
13:5 When they reached Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews; and they also had John as their helper.
13:6 When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a magician, a Jewish false prophet whose name was Bar-Jesus,
13:7 who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God.
13:8 But Elymas the magician (for so his name is translated) was opposing them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.
13:9 But Saul, who was also known as Paul, ①filled with the Holy Spirit, stared at him,
▷ ①Or having just been filled
13:10 and said, “ ①You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not stop making crooked the straight ways of the Lord?
▷ ①Lit O full of
13:11 Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and not see the sun for a time.” And immediately a mist and a darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking those who would lead him by the hand.
13:12 Then the proconsul believed when he saw what had happened, being amazed at the teaching of the Lord.
13:13 Now Paul and his companions put out to sea from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia; but John left them and returned to Jerusalem.
13:14 But going on from Perga, they arrived at Pisidian Antioch, and on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.
13:15 After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue officials sent word to them, saying, “ ①Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say it.”
▷ ①Lit Men, brothers
13:16 Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said, “Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen:
13:17 The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and ①made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out from it.
▷ ①Or exalted
13:18 For a period of about forty years He put up with them in the wilderness.
13:19 When He had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He distributed their land as an inheritance—all of which took about 450 years.
13:20 After these things He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.
13:21 Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
13:22 After He had removed him, He raised up David to be their king, concerning whom He also testified and said, ‘I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after My heart, who will do all My ①will.’
▷ ①Lit wishes
13:23 From the descendants of this man, according to promise, God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus,
13:24 after John had proclaimed, before ①His coming, a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
▷ ①Lit the face of His entering
13:25 And while John was completing his course, he kept saying, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not He. But behold, one is coming after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’
13:26 “ ①Brothers, sons of Abraham’s family, and those among you who fear God, to us the message of this salvation has been sent.
▷ ①Lit Men, brothers
13:27 For those who live in Jerusalem, and their rulers, recognizing neither Him nor the ①declarations of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled these by condemning Him.
▷ ①Lit voices
13:28 And though they found no grounds for putting Him to death, they asked Pilate that He be executed.
13:29 When they had carried out everything that was written concerning Him, they took Him down from the ①cross and laid Him in a tomb.
▷ ①Lit wood; see Deut 21:23
13:30 But God raised Him from the dead;
13:31 and for many days He appeared to those who came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, the very ones who are now His witnesses to the people.
13:32 And we preach to you the good news of the promise made to the fathers,
13:33 that God has fulfilled this promise to those of us who are the descendants by raising Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm: ‘YOU ARE MY SON; TODAY I HAVE FATHERED YOU.’
13:34 As for the fact that He raised Him from the dead, never again to return to decay, He has spoken in this way: ‘I WILL GIVE YOU THE HOLY and faithful mercies of DAVID.’
13:35 Therefore, He also says in another Psalm: ‘YOU WILL NOT ①ALLOW YOUR ②HOLY ONE TO ③UNDERGO DECAY.’
▷ ①Lit give ②Or Devout; or Pious ③Lit see corruption
13:36 For David, after he had ①served God’s purpose in his own generation, fell asleep, and was ②buried among his fathers and ③underwent decay;
▷ ①Or served his own generation by the purpose of God ②Lit gathered to his ③Lit saw corruption
13:37 but He whom God raised did not ①undergo decay.
▷ ①Lit see corruption
13:38 Therefore let it be known to you, ①brothers, that through ②Him forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,
▷ ①Lit men, brothers ②Lit this One
13:39 and ①through Him everyone who believes is ②freed ③from all things, from which you could not be ④freed ⑤through the Law of Moses.
▷ ①Lit in; or by ②Or justified ③Lit by ④Or justified ⑤Lit by
13:40 Therefore, see that the thing spoken of in the Prophets does not come upon you:
13:41 ‘LOOK, YOU SCOFFERS, AND BE ASTONISHED, AND ①PERISH;
FOR I AM ACCOMPLISHING A WORK IN YOUR DAYS,
A WORK WHICH YOU WILL NEVER BELIEVE, THOUGH SOMEONE SHOULD DESCRIBE IT TO YOU.’ ”
▷ ①Lit disappear
13:42 As ①Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people repeatedly begged to have these ②things spoken to them the next Sabbath.
▷ ①Lit they ②Lit words
13:43 Now when the meeting of the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and the God-fearing ①proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking to them and urging them to continue in the grace of God.
▷ ①I.e., Gentile converts to Judaism
13:44 The next Sabbath nearly all the city assembled to hear the word of ①the Lord.
▷ ①One early ms God
13:45 But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began contradicting the things spoken by Paul, and were ①blaspheming.
▷ ①Or slandering him
13:46 Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first. Since you repudiate it and consider yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.
13:47 For so the Lord has commanded us,
‘I HAVE APPOINTED YOU AS A LIGHT ①TO THE GENTILES,
THAT YOU MAY ②BRING SALVATION TO THE END OF THE EARTH.’ ”
▷ ①Lit of ②Lit be for salvation
13:48 When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of ①the Lord; and all who had been appointed to eternal life believed.
▷ ①Two early mss God
13:49 And the word of the Lord was being spread through the whole region.
13:50 But the Jews incited the ①devout women of prominence and the leading men of the city, and instigated a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their ②region.
▷ ①Or worshiping ②Lit boundaries
13:51 But they shook off the dust from their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.
13:52 And the disciples were continually filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.