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And there were certain in Antioch, in the assembly there, prophets and teachers; both Barnabas, and Simeon who is called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen also -- Herod the tetrarch's foster-brother -- and Saul;
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and in their ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, `Separate ye to me both Barnabas and Saul to the work to which I have called them,'
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then having fasted, and having prayed, and having laid the hands on them, they sent [them] away.
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These, indeed, then, having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, thence also they sailed to Cyprus,
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and having come unto Salamis, they declared the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they had also John [as] a ministrant;
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and having gone through the island unto Paphos, they found a certain magian, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name [is] Bar-Jesus;
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who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man; this one having called for Barnabas and Saul, did desire to hear the word of God,
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and there withstood them Elymas the magian -- for so is his name interpreted -- seeking to pervert the proconsul from the faith.