Acts 13:1-4

Barnabas and Saul Sent Out from Antioch

1 Now 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.

2 And [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."

3 Then, [after they] had fasted and prayed and placed [their] hands on them, they sent [them] away.

Confronting a Magician on Cyprus

4 Therefore, sent out by the Holy Spirit, they came down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed away to Cyprus.

Footnotes

• [a] *Here "[while]" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("were serving")
• [b] *Here "[after]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had fasted") which is understood as temporal
• [c] *Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
• [d] *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation