Acts 13:4–12

The Apostles Preach in Cyprus

⁴So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.^{* 5}When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. And they had John also to assist them.^{* 6}When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they met a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet, named Bar-Jesus.^{* 7}He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man who summoned Barnabas and Saul and wanted to hear the word of God.^{* 8}But the magician Elymas (for that is the translation of his name) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul away from the faith.^{* 9}But Saul, also known as Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him^{* 10}and said, “You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?^{* 11}And now listen—the hand of the Lord is against you, and you will be blind for a while, unable to see the sun.” Immediately mist and darkness came over him, and he fumbled about for someone to lead him by the hand.^{* 12}When the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, for he was astonished at the teaching about the Lord.