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Acts 13:1 (show verse)

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.

Acts 13:2 (show verse)

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."
Associations » Man needs the comfort and help of » Recognized by paul in his missionary work
Barnabas » Characteristics of » Adapted to missionary work
Call » To special religious duty » Paul
Christian ministers » Sent forth in teams of two » Paul and barnabas
Companionship » Man needs the comfort and help of » Recognized by paul in his missionary work
Fasting » Examples of » Leaders in the church at antioch
Fasting » Of saints--exemplified » Primitive Christians
Fasting » Instances of » Of the disciples, at the time of the consecration of barnabas and saul
God's Call » Examples of Leadership » Isaiah
the personality of Holy Spirit » He appoints and commissions ministers
Holy spirit » As appointing and sending ministers
Holy spirit » The leadership of » Directs in the selection of Christian leaders
Holy spirit » Guides » Directs in the selection of Christian leaders
the Inspiration of the Holy Spirit » Design of » To direct ministers
Leadership » Of the spirit » Directs in the selection of Christian leaders
Ministers » Sent by the holy ghost
Missionary-work by ministers » Exemplified
Missionary-work by ministers » Directed by the holy ghost
Missionary-work by ministers » The holy ghost calls to
Paul » Sent to the gentiles
Spirit » The leadership of holy spirit » Directs in the selection of Christian leaders
Spirit » The leadership of » Directs in the selection of Christian leaders
God, Trinity » Each person in, described as » Supplying ministers to the church

Acts 13:3 (show verse)

So after fasting and praying, they laid their hands upon them and let them go.

Acts 13:4 (show verse)

So, as they were sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from that port sailed away to Cyprus.

Acts 13:5 (show verse)

When they reached Salamis, they began to preach God's message in the Jewish synagogues. They had John with them as their assistant.

Acts 13:6 (show verse)

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.

Acts 13:7 (show verse)

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.

Acts 13:8 (show verse)

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.

Acts 13:9 (show verse)

Then Saul, who was also called Paul, because he was full of the Holy Spirit, looked him straight in the eye

Acts 13:10 (show verse)

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!

Acts 13:11 (show verse)

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.

Acts 13:12 (show verse)

The governor, because he saw what had occurred, was thunderstruck at the Lord's teaching, and so came to believe.

Acts 13:13 (show verse)

Then Paul and his party set sail from Paphos and crossed over to Perga in Pamphylia. Here John quit them and returned to Jerusalem,

Acts 13:14 (show verse)

but they went on from Perga and arrived at Antioch in Pisidia. On the sabbath they went to the synagogue and took seats.

Acts 13:15 (show verse)

After the reading of the law and the prophets, the leaders of the synagogue worship sent to them and said, "Brothers, if you have any message of encouragement for the people, you may speak."

Acts 13:16 (show verse)

Then Paul got up and motioned with his hand and said: "Fellow Israelites, and you who reverence God, listen!

Acts 13:17 (show verse)

The God of this people Israel chose our forefathers, and made this people important during their stay in Egypt, and then with an uplifted arm He led them out of it.

Acts 13:18 (show verse)

Then after He had fed them forty years in the desert,

Acts 13:19 (show verse)

He destroyed seven nations in Canaan

Acts 13:20 (show verse)

and gave them their land as an inheritance for about four hundred and fifty years. And after that He gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

Acts 13:21 (show verse)

Then they demanded a king, and for forty years God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin.

Acts 13:22 (show verse)

Then He deposed him and raised up for them David to be king, to whom He bore this testimony, 'I have found in David, the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who will do all that my will requires.'

Acts 13:23 (show verse)

It is from this man's descendants that God, as He promised, has brought to Israel a Saviour in the person of Jesus,

Acts 13:24 (show verse)

as John, before His coming, had already preached baptism as an expression of repentance, for all the people of Israel.

Acts 13:25 (show verse)

As John was closing his career, he said, 'What do you take me to be? I am not the Christ; no, but He is coming after me, and I am not fit to untie the shoes on His feet.'

Acts 13:26 (show verse)

Brothers, descendants of the race of Abraham, and all among you who reverence God, it is to us that the message of this salvation has been sent.

Acts 13:27 (show verse)

For the people of Jerusalem and their leaders, because they were ignorant of Him, by condemning Him have actually fulfilled the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath,

Acts 13:28 (show verse)

and although they could not find Him guilty of a capital offense, they begged Pilate to have Him put to death.

Acts 13:29 (show verse)

When they had carried out everything that had been written in the Scriptures about Him, they took Him down from the cross and laid Him in a tomb.

Acts 13:30 (show verse)

But God raised Him from the dead,

Acts 13:31 (show verse)

and for many days He appeared to those who had come up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, and they are now witnesses for Him to the people.

Acts 13:32 (show verse)

So now we are bringing you the good news about the promise that was made to our forefathers,

Acts 13:33 (show verse)

that God has fulfilled it to us their children, by raising Jesus to life, just as the Scripture says in the Second Psalm, 'You are my Son, today I have become your Father.'

Acts 13:34 (show verse)

Now as a proof that He has raised Him from the dead, no more to return to decay, He has spoken this, 'I will fulfill to you the holy promises made to David.'

Acts 13:35 (show verse)

Because in another psalm he says, 'You will not let your Holy One experience decay.'

Acts 13:36 (show verse)

For David, after having served God's purpose in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid among his forefathers, and so he did experience decay,

Acts 13:37 (show verse)

but He whom God raised to life did not experience it.

Acts 13:38 (show verse)

So, my brothers, you must understand that through Him the forgiveness of your sins is now proclaimed to you,

Acts 13:39 (show verse)

and that through union with Him every one of you who believes is given right standing with God and freed from every charge from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

Acts 13:40 (show verse)

So take care that what is said in the prophets does not come upon you:

Acts 13:41 (show verse)

'Look, you scoffers! Then wonder and vanish away, for I am doing a work in your times which you will not at all believe though one may tell you in detail.'"

Acts 13:42 (show verse)

As they were leaving the synagogue, the people kept begging that all this be repeated to them the next sabbath,

Acts 13:43 (show verse)

and after the congregation had broken up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism allied themselves with Paul and Barnabas, and they kept talking to them and urging them to continue to rely on the unmerited favor of God.

Acts 13:44 (show verse)

The next sabbath almost the whole town turned out to hear God's message.

Acts 13:45 (show verse)

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were completely overcome by their jealousy and began to contradict the statements made by Paul, and even to abuse him.

Acts 13:46 (show verse)

Then Paul and Barnabas courageously spoke out, "God's message had to be spoken to you Jews first, but since you continue to thrust it from you and since you show yourselves unworthy to receive eternal life, now and here we turn to the heathen.

Acts 13:47 (show verse)

For here are the orders that the Lord has given us: 'I have made you a light to the heathen, To be the means of salvation to the very ends of the earth.'"

Acts 13:48 (show verse)

The heathen kept on listening and rejoicing and giving the glory to God's message, and all who had been destined to eternal life believed,

Acts 13:49 (show verse)

and so the message of the Lord spread all over the country.

Acts 13:50 (show verse)

But the Jews stirred up the devout women of high rank and the men of first rank in town, and so started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.

Acts 13:51 (show verse)

But they shook off the dust from their feet as a protest against them, and went to Iconlure;

Acts 13:52 (show verse)

and the disciples continued to be full of joy and the Holy Spirit.