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Acts 13
1 Now there were in the church that was at Antioch
certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and
Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene,
and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the
tetrarch, and Saul.
2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the
Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for
the work whereunto I have called them.
3 And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid
their hands on them, they sent them away.
4 So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost,
departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed
to Cyprus.
5 And when they were at Salamis, they preached the
word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they
had also John to their minister.
6 And when they had gone through the isle unto
Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false
prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-jesus:
7 Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius
Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and
Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.
8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by
interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away
the deputy from the faith.
9 Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with
the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,
10 And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief,
thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all
righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the
right ways of the Lord?
11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon
thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for
a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist
and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to
lead him by the hand.
12 Then the deputy, when he saw what was done,
believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the
Lord.
13 Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos,
they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing
from them returned to Jerusalem.
14 But when they departed from Perga, they came to
Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on
the sabbath day, and sat down.
15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets
the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying,
Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of
exhortation for the people, say on.
16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand
said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give
audience.
17 The God of this people of Israel chose our
fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as
strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm
brought he them out of it.
18 And about the time of forty years suffered he
their manners in the wilderness.
19 And when he had destroyed seven nations in the
land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by
lot.
20 And after that he gave unto them judges about the
space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel
the prophet.
21 And afterward they desired a king: and God gave
unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of
Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
22 And when he had removed him, he raised up unto
them David to be their king; to whom also he gave
testimony, and said, I have found David the son of
Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil
all my will.
23 Of this man's seed hath God according to his
promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:
24 When John had first preached before his coming the
baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
25 And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom
think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there
cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not
worthy to loose.
26 Men and brethren, children of the stock of
Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you
is the word of this salvation sent.
27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their
rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices
of the prophets which are read every sabbath day,
they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
28 And though they found no cause of death in him,
yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.
29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written
of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid
him in a sepulchre.
30 But God raised him from the dead:
31 And he was seen many days of them which came up
with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his
witnesses unto the people.
32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the
promise which was made unto the fathers,
33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their
children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as
it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my
Son, this day have I begotten thee.
34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the
dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on
this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.
35 Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou
shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
36 For David, after he had served his own generation
by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto
his fathers, and saw corruption:
37 But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren,
that through this man is preached unto you the
forgiveness of sins:
39 And by him all that believe are justified from all
things, from which ye could not be justified by the
law of Moses.
40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which
is spoken of in the prophets;
41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for
I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in
no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
42 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue,
the Gentiles besought that these words might be
preached to them the next sabbath.
43 Now when the congregation was broken up, many of
the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and
Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to
continue in the grace of God.
44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole
city together to hear the word of God.
45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were
filled with envy, and spake against those things
which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and
blaspheming.
46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It
was necessary that the word of God should first have
been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you,
and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life,
lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have
set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou
shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the
earth.
48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad,
and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as
were ordained to eternal life believed.
49 And the word of the Lord was published throughout
all the region.
50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable
women, and the chief men of the city, and raised
persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled
them out of their coasts.
51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against
them, and came unto Iconium.
52 And the disciples were filled with joy, and with
the Holy Ghost.
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