Acts 12:25-Acts 13:12 - Barnabas And Saul Travel To Cyprus
25 And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having performed their service, taking with them also John, surnamed Mark.
1 Now there were at Antioch, in the church that was there, prophets and teachers; Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenaean, and Manaen, the fosterbrother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
2 And while they were ministering to the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them. 3 Then, after they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
4 They therefore being sent forth by the Holy Spirit, came down to Seleucia, and from thence sailed to Cyprus. 5 And having come to Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews; and they had also John as an assistant. 6 And when they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a certain magian, a Jewish false prophet, whose name was Barjesus, 7 who was with the proconsul of the country, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. He, having called for Barnabas and Saul, desired to hear the word of God. 8 But Elymas the magian (for so is his name interpreted) withstood them, seeking so turn away the proconsul from the faith.
9 But Saul (who is also called Paul), filled with the Holy Spirit, fixed his eyes on him 10 and said, O full of all deceit, and of all mischief, son of the Devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? 11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou wilt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and darkness; and going about he sought to find some who would lead him by the hand.
12 Then the proconsul, when he saw what had taken place, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.