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 [1>]Ruach
HaKodesh[<1] 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 forth by the [2>]Ruach HaKodesh[<2], 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. The same
called Bar-Nabba and Sha'ul to him, 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 [3>]Ruach HaKodesh[<3], 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 through 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 law 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
Yisra'el chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as
aliens in the land of Mitzrayim, and with an uplifted arm, he led them
forth out of it. {13:18} For about the time of 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 and 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 all the people of 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, there comes one 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 forth 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 of 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 law 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 of the Goyim,
That you should be for salvation to the uttermost parts of the
[4>]eretz[<4].'"
{13:48} As the Goyim 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 urged on the devout women of honorable estate,
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 [5>]talmidim[<5] were filled with joy with the
[6>]Ruach HaKodesh[<6].
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Footnotes:
[1] {13:2} Holy Spirit
[2] {13:4} Holy Spirit
[3] {13:9} Holy Spirit
[4] {13:47} earth
[5] {13:52} disciples
[6] {13:52} Holy Spirit
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