Acts, Chapter 13
{13:1} Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some
prophets and teachers: Bar-Nabba, Shim`on who was called Niger, Lucius
of Cyrene, Menachem the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and
Sha'ul. {13:2} As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit
said, "Separate Bar-Nabba and Sha'ul for me, for the work to which I
have called them."
{13:3} Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on
them, they sent them away. {13:4} So, being sent out by the Holy
Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus.
{13:5} When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in
the synagogues of the Yehudim. They had also Yochanan as their
attendant. {13:6} When they had gone through the island to Paphos,
they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Yehudi, whose name
was Bar-Yeshua, {13:7} who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a
man of understanding. This man summoned Bar-Nabba and Sha'ul, and
sought to hear the word of God. {13:8} But Elymas the sorcerer (for so
is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn aside
the proconsul from the faith. {13:9} But Sha'ul, who is also called
Sha'ul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him, {13:10}
and said, "Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil,
you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the
right ways of the Lord? {13:11} Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is
on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!"
Immediately there fell on him a mist and darkness. He went around
seeking someone to lead him by the hand. {13:12} Then the proconsul,
when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching
of the Lord.
{13:13} Now Sha'ul and his company set sail from Paphos, and came to
Perga in Pamphylia. Yochanan departed from them and returned to
Yerushalayim. {13:14} But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch
of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the day of Shabbat, and
sat down. {13:15} After the reading of the Torah and the Prophets, the
rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have
any word of exhortation for the people, speak."
{13:16} Sha'ul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, "Men of
Yisra'el, and you who fear God, listen. {13:17} The God of this people
chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens
in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it.
{13:18} For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the
wilderness. {13:19} When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of
Kana`an, he gave them their land for an inheritance, for about four
hundred fifty years. {13:20} After these things he gave them judges
until Shemu'el the prophet. {13:21} Afterward they asked for a king,
and God gave to them Sha'ul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of
Binyamin, for forty years. {13:22} When he had removed him, he raised
up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, 'I have found
David the son of Yishai, a man after my heart, who will do all my
will.' {13:23} From this man's seed, God has brought salvation to
Yisra'el according to his promise, {13:24} before his coming, when
Yochanan had first preached the immersion of repentance to Yisra'el.
{13:25} As Yochanan was fulfilling his course, he said, 'What do you
suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me the
sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.' {13:26} Brothers,
children of the stock of Avraham, and those among you who fear God,
the word of this salvation is sent out to you. {13:27} For those who
dwell in Yerushalayim, and their rulers, because they didn't know him,
nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Shabbat, fulfilled
them by condemning him. {13:28} Though they found no cause for death,
they still asked Pilate to have him killed. {13:29} When they had
fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down
from the tree, and laid him in a tomb. {13:30} But God raised him from
the dead, {13:31} and he was seen for many days by those who came up
with him from the Galil to Yerushalayim, who are his witnesses to the
people. {13:32} We bring you good news of the promise made to the
fathers, {13:33} that God has fulfilled the same to us, their
children, in that he raised up Yeshua. As it is also written in the
second psalm,
'You are my Son.
Today I have become your father.'
{13:34} "Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more
to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: 'I will give you the holy
and sure blessings of David.' {13:35} Therefore he says also in
another psalm, 'You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.'
{13:36} For David, after he had in his own generation served the
counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw
decay. {13:37} But he whom God raised up saw no decay. {13:38} Be it
known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed
to you remission of sins, {13:39} and by him everyone who believes is
justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by
the Torah of Moshe. {13:40} Beware therefore, lest that come on you
which is spoken in the prophets:
{13:41} 'Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish;
For I work a work in your days,
A work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.'"
{13:42} So when the Yehudim went out of the synagogue, the Goyim
begged that these words might be preached to them the next Shabbat.
{13:43} Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Yehudim and of
the devout proselytes followed Sha'ul and Bar-Nabba; who, speaking to
them, urged them to continue in the grace of God. {13:44} The next
Shabbat almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word
of God. {13:45} But when the Yehudim saw the multitudes, they were
filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by
Sha'ul, and blasphemed.
{13:46} Sha'ul and Bar-Nabba spoke out boldly, and said, "It was
necessary that God's word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed
you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life,
behold, we turn to the Goyim. {13:47} For so has the Lord commanded
us, saying,
'I have set you as a light for the Goyim,
That you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the
earth.'"
{13:48} As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified
the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
{13:49} The Lord's word was spread abroad throughout all the region.
{13:50} But the Yehudim stirred up the devout and prominent women and
the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Sha'ul
and Bar-Nabba, and threw them out of their borders. {13:51} But they
shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.
{13:52} The [1>]talmidim[<1] were filled with joy with the Holy Spirit.
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Footnotes:
[1] {13:52} disciples
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