Barnabas and Saul on Cyprus

Acts 13

4 These, indeed, then, having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, thence also they sailed to Cyprus, 5 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; 6 and having gone through the island unto Paphos, they found a certain magian, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name [is] Bar-Jesus; 7 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, 8 and there withstood them Elymas the magian -- for so is his name interpreted -- seeking to pervert the proconsul from the faith. 9 And Saul -- who also [is] Paul -- having been filled with the Holy Spirit, and having looked stedfastly on him, 10 said, `O full of all guile, and all profligacy, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord? 11 and now, lo, a hand of the Lord [is] upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season;' and presently there fell upon him a mist and darkness, and he, going about, was seeking some to lead [him] by the hand; 12 then the proconsul having seen what hath come to pass, did believe, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

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