[Acts 13]

 

             {45-48 AD. Asia Minor. Paul’s first missionary journey from Antioch to Perga, Cyprus, Antioch in Pisidia, Iconium, Lystra, Derbe and back to Antioch in Syria.}

             ^13:1 Now some prophets and teachers were in the congregation^* which is in Antioch: both Barnabas, and Symeon the one being called Niger, and Lucius from Cyrene, and Manaen, a foster-brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul. ^13:2 Now while ministering^* to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate^*° Barnabas and Saul for me, ^*for the work to which I have called them. ^13:3 Then they fasted and prayed, laid their hands upon them and dismissed them.

 

             ^13:4 Therefore indeed, these men were sent out by the Holy Spirit and went down to Seleucia, and sailed from there to Cyprus. ^13:5 And after they came^* in Salamis, they were proclaiming the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they also had John, an attendant.

             ^13:6 Now after they went through the island up-to Paphos, they found a certain magician, a false^* prophet, a Jew, to which is the name Son-of-Joshua; ^13:7 who was together-with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This one sought to hear the word of God, and called to him Barnabas and Saul. ^13:8 But Elymas the magician (for^* so is his name by translation) was standing against them, seeking to pervert the proconsul away from the faith. ^13:9 But Saul, also called Paul, was filled from {i.e., with} thestared toward him, ^13:10 and said, O full of all treachery and all villainy, son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord? ^13:11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and will not see the sun till the next season. Now instantly dimness and darkness fell upon him, and proceeding around, he was seeking someone to lead him by the hand. ^13:12 Then the proconsul saw the thing which had happened and believedbeing astounded upon the teaching of the Lord.

 

             ^13:13 Now the ones around Paul set-sail from Paphos, came to Perga in Pamphylia. And John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem.

             ^13:14 But they themselves went through from Perga, came^* to Antioch of Pisidia, {Asia Minor} and entered into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down. ^13:15 Now after the public-reading of the law and the prophets, the synagogue-rulers sent for them, saying, Men, brethren, if there is a word of encouragement to the people in you^°, speak^° it.

             ^13:16 Now Paul stood up and beckoned with the hand and said,

             Men, Israelites, and the ones fearing God, listen^°: ^13:17 The God of this people chose our fathers and exalted the people in their foreign residency, in the land of Egypt, and he led them forth out-of it with a high arm. {Exo 12:37, Deu 5:15} ^13:18 And he tolerated the mannerisms of them in the wilderness for approximately a time of forty years. {Deu 1:31, 7:1-6, Num 14:33, Psa 95:10} ^13:19 And he demolished seven nations in the land of Canaan, and gave to them their land for an inheritance. {Deu 7:1, Jos 14:2} ^13:20 After these things for approximately four hundred and fifty years, he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. {Jdg 2:16, 1Sa 3:20} ^13:21 And from thereon, they asked for a king. And God gave to them Saul, son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. {1Sa 8:5, 10:21} ^13:22 And he removed him and lifted up David to be king to them; to whom he also testified and said, I found David the son of Jesse, a man according-to my own heart, who will be practicing all my various wills. {i.e., wishes or commandments} {1Sa 13:14, 1Ch 10:14, 2Sa 6:21}

             ^13:23 God brought^* salvation to Israel from the seed of this man David, according-to promise, ^13:24 when John preached beforehand the immersion^* of repentance to Israel, before his face and before his entrance. ^13:25 Now as John was fulfilling the course, he was saying, Who do you^° perceive me to be {i.e., that I am}? I am not he. But behold, he is coming after me, of whom I am not worthy to loosen the shoes from his feet. ^13:26 Men, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham and the ones fearing God among you^°, the word of this salvation was sent forth to you^°. ^13:27 For^* the ones dwelling in Jerusalem and their rulers who were ignorant of this one, and they fulfilled the voices of the prophets, the ones being read on every Sabbath, when they judged him to death. ^13:28 And though no one found a crime worthy of death in him, they still asked Pilate to assassinate him. ^13:29 Now as they completed all things which have been written concerning him, they took him down from the tree and placed him in a tomb. ^13:30 But God raised him up from the dead, ^13:31 who was seen upon many days by the ones who came-up together-with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people. ^13:32 And we are proclaiming to you^° the good-news of the promise which came^* to the fathers, that God has fulfilled this for us, their children, when he raised^* up Jesus; ^13:33 as it has also been written in the second Psalm, ‘You are my Son; I have fathered you today.’ {Psa 2:7} ^13:34 Now he raised^* him up from the dead, no longer being about to return to decay, he has said thus, I will be giving you^° the holy faithful things of David. {Isa 55:3} ^13:35 Hence, he also says in a different psalm, ‘You will not be giving your Holy One to see decay.’ {Psa 16:10} ^13:36 For^* indeed David, after he attended to the plan of God in his own generation, fell-asleep and was added to his fathers and saw decay; {1Ki 2:10} ^13:37 but he whom God raised up saw no decay. ^13:38 Therefore, men, brethren, let it be known to you^° that forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you^° through this one; ^13:39 and everyone who believes is made righteous in this one; you^° were not able to be made righteous from all the things of which were in the Law of Moses. ^13:40 Therefore, beware^°, that what has been spoken in the prophets might not come upon you^°: ^13:41 ‘You^° despisers, behold^° and marvel^° and disappear^°, because I am working a work in your^° days, a work which you^° should never believe, even if someone should describe it to you^°.’ {Hab. 1:5}

             ^13:42 But after the Jews go-out of the synagogue, the Gentiles were pleading for the declarations to be spoken to them at the ensuing Sabbath. ^13:43 Now after the synagogue was dissolved, many of the Jews and the pious Jewish-converts followed Paul and Barnabas; who, while speaking, were persuading them to remain in the favor of God.

             ^13:44 And the coming Sabbath, almost all the city was gathered together to hear the word of God. ^13:45 But the Jews saw the crowds and were filled from jealousy and were contradicting the things being spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming him.

             ^13:46 But Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly and said, It was necessary for the word of God to first be spoken to you^°. But since you^° are shoving it away from yourselves and are judging yourselves not worthy of the everlasting life. Behold, how we are turned to the Gentiles. ^13:47 For^* so the Lord has commanded to us, saying, ‘I have placed you ^*for a light of the Gentiles, for you to be ^*for salvation to the outermost parts of the earth.’ {Isa 42:6}

             ^13:48 And while the Gentiles are hearing this, they were rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and they believed as many as have appointed themselves toward everlasting life. ^13:49 Now the word of the Lord was being carried through the whole region.

             ^13:50 But the Jews spurred on the pious and prominent women and the foremost ones of the city, and awakened a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them away from their borders. ^13:51 But they shook-off the dust of their feet against them and came to Iconium. ^13:52 Now the disciples were being filled from joy and the Holy Spirit.