13Now there were prophets and teachers in Antioch in the church that was there: Barnabas, and Simeon (who was called Niger), and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen (a close friend of Herod the tetrarch), and Saul. ²And while^* they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart now for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” ³Then, after they^* had fasted and prayed and placed their^* hands on them, they sent them^* away.

Confronting a Magician on Cyprus

⁴Therefore, sent out by the Holy Spirit, they came down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed away to Cyprus. ⁵And when they^* came to Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they also had John as assistant. ⁶And when they^* had crossed over the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a certain man, a magician, a Jewish false prophet whose name was Bar-Jesus,⁷who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and^* wished to hear the word of God. ⁸But Elymas the magician (for his name is translated in this way) opposed them, attempting to turn the proconsul away from the faith. ⁹But Saul (also called Paul), filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him ¹⁰and^* said, “O you who are full of all deceit and of all unscrupulousness, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness! Will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord! ¹¹And now behold, the hand of the Lord is against you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a while.”^a And immediately mist and darkness fell over him, and he was going around looking for people^* to lead him^* by the hand. ¹²Then when^* the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, because he^* was astounded at the teaching about^* the Lord.

Preaching in the Synagogue at Pisidian Antioch

¹³Now Paul and his companions^b put out to sea from Paphos and^* came to Perga in Pamphylia, but John departed from them and^* returned to Jerusalem. ¹⁴And they went on from Perga and^* arrived at Pisidian Antioch. And they entered into the synagogue on the day of the Sabbath and^* sat down. ¹⁵So after the reading from the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent word^* to them, saying, “Men and brothers, if there is any message of exhortation by you for the people, say it.”^*

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Footnotes

*Here “while” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“were serving”)
*Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had fasted”) which is understood as temporal
*Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“came”) which is understood as temporal
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had crossed over”) which is understood as temporal
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“summoned”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here “and” is supplied because the participle in the previous verse (“looked intently at”) has been translated as a finite verb
aLiterally “until the time”
*In Greek the direct object (“people”) is understood and must be supplied in the English translation; since the following noun is plural, “people” rather than “someone” is used here
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal
*Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“was astounded”) which is understood as causal
*Here “about” reflects an objective genitive (“the Lord” is the object of the teaching)
bLiterally “those around Paul”
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“put out to sea”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“departed”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“went on”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“entered”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation