Acts 13:4-12 - Confronting A Magician On Cyprus

⁴ Indeed therefore these men, having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed for Cyprus. ⁵ And after becoming in Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they also had John for a helper. ⁶ And after going through the island as far as Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a Jewish FALSE prophet, whose name was Bar-jesus, ⁷ who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man, having summoned Barnabas and Saul, sought to hear the word of God. ⁸ But Elymas the sorcerer (for so his name is translated) opposed them, seeking to deviate the proconsul from the faith.

⁹ But Saul (the man is also Paul) having been filled with Holy Spirit, and having gazed on him, ¹⁰ said, O man full of all deceit and all recklessness, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, will thou not cease distorting the straight ways of Lord? ¹¹ And now, behold, a hand of Lord is upon thee, and thou will be blind, not seeing the sun until a time. And immediately there fell on him gloom and darkness, and going around he sought hand-guides.

¹² Then the proconsul, who saw that which happened, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.