Acts 12:25-Acts 13:12 - Barnabas And Saul Travel To Cyprus
25 When Barnabas and Saul had finished their helpful service, they returned from Jerusalem, and took along with them John who was called Mark.
1 Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who is called Niger, Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen who was an intimate friend of the governor, and Saul.
2 While they were worshiping 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 So after fasting and praying, they laid their hands upon them and let them go.
4 So, as they were sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from that port sailed away to Cyprus. 5 When they reached Salamis, they began to preach God's message in the Jewish synagogues. They had John with them as their assistant. 6 Then they went through the whole island as far as Paphos, and there they found a Jewish magician and false prophet whose name was Barjesus. 7 He was an intimate friend of the governor, Sergius Paulus, who was an intelligent man. The governor sent for Barnabas and Saul and in this way tried to hear God's message. 8 But Elymas the magician -- for this is the meaning of his name -- continued to oppose them by trying to keep the governor from accepting the faith.
9 Then Saul, who was also called Paul, because he was full of the Holy Spirit, looked him straight in the eye 10 and said, "You expert in every form of deception and sleight-of-hand, you son of the devil, you enemy of all that is right, will you never stop trying to make the Lord's straight paths crooked! 11 Right now the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be so blind that you cannot see the sun for a time." And suddenly a dark mist fell upon him, and he kept groping about begging people to lead him by the hand.
12 The governor, because he saw what had occurred, was thunderstruck at the Lord's teaching, and so came to believe.