Acts 13:1-8

Barnabas and Saul Sent Off

1 Now there were in the church at Antioch ¹prophets and ²teachers, ³Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger,^[a] Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a member of the court of ⁴Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, ⁵the Holy Spirit said, ⁶"Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul ⁷for the work to which I have called them."

3 Then after fasting and ⁸praying they laid their hands on them and ⁹sent them off.

Barnabas and Saul on Cyprus

4 So, being sent out ¹⁰by 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 ¹¹in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had ¹²John to ¹³assist them.

6 When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain ¹⁴magician, ¹⁵a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus.

7 He was with ¹⁶the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence, who summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God.

8 But Elymas the ¹⁷magician (for that is the meaning of his name) ¹⁸opposed them, seeking to turn ¹⁹the proconsul away from the faith.