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1 Now there were in the church that was at An­ti­och cer­tain prophets and teach­ers; as Barn­abas, and Sime­on that was called Niger, and Lu­cius of Cyrene, and Man­aen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrar­ch, and Saul. 2 As they min­is­tered to the Lord, and fast­ed, the Holy Ghost said, Sep­a­rate me Barn­abas and Saul for the work where­un­to I have called them. 3 And when they had fast­ed and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. 4 So they, be­ing sent forth by the Holy Ghost, de­part­ed unto Se­leu­cia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus. 5 And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the syn­a­gogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their min­is­ter. 6 And when they had gone through the isle unto Pa­phos, they found a cer­tain sor­cer­er, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar­je­sus: 7 Which was with the deputy of the coun­try, Sergius Paulus, a pru­dent man; who called for Barn­abas and Saul, and de­sired to hear the word of God. 8 But Ely­mas the sor­cer­er (for so is his name by in­ter­pre­ta­tion) with­stood them, seek­ing to turn away the deputy from the faith. 9 Then Saul, (who also is called Paul, ) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him, 10 And said, O full of all sub­tilty and all mis­chief, thou child of the dev­il, thou 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 shalt be blind, not see­ing the sun for a sea­son. And im­me­di­ate­ly there fell on him a mist and a dark­ness; and he went about seek­ing some to lead him by the hand. 12 Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, be­lieved, be­ing as­ton­ished at the doc­trine of the Lord. 13 Now when Paul and his com­pa­ny loosed from Pa­phos, they came to Per­ga in Pam­phylia: and John de­part­ing from them re­turned to Jerusalem. 14 But when they de­part­ed from Per­ga, they came to An­ti­och in Pi­sidia, and went into the syn­a­gogue on the sab­bath day, and sat down. 15 And af­ter the read­ing of the law and the prophets the rulers of the syn­a­gogue sent unto them, say­ing, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of ex­hor­ta­tion for the peo­ple, say on. 16 Then Paul stood up, and beck­on­ing with his hand said, Men of Is­rael, and ye that fear God, give au­di­ence. 17 The God of this peo­ple of Is­rael chose our fa­thers, and ex­alt­ed the peo­ple when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it. 18 And about the time of forty years suf­fered he their man­ners in the wilder­ness. 19 And when he had de­stroyed sev­en na­tions in the land of Chanaan, he di­vid­ed their land to them by lot. 20 And af­ter that he gave un­to them judges about the space of four hun­dred and fifty years, un­til Samuel the prophet. 21 And af­ter­ward they de­sired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Ben­jamin, by the space of forty years. 22 And when he had re­moved him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave tes­ti­mo­ny, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man af­ter mine own heart, which shall ful­fil all my will. 23 Of this man's seed hath God ac­cord­ing to his promise raised unto Is­rael a Saviour, Je­sus: 24 When John had first preached be­fore his com­ing the bap­tism of re­pen­tance to all the peo­ple of Is­rael. 25 And as John ful­filled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, be­hold, there cometh one af­ter me, whose shoes of his feet I am not wor­thy to loose. 26 Men and brethren, chil­dren of the stock of Abra­ham, and whoso­ev­er among you feareth God, to you is the word of this sal­va­tion sent. 27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, be­cause they knew him not, nor yet the voic­es of the prophets which are read ev­ery sab­bath day, they have ful­filled them in con­demn­ing him. 28 And though they found no cause of death in him, yet de­sired they Pi­late that he should be slain. 29 And when they had ful­filled all that was writ­ten of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepul­chre. 30 But God raised him from the dead: 31 And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his wit­ness­es unto the peo­ple. 32 And we de­clare unto you glad tid­ings, how that the promise which was made unto the fa­thers, 33 God hath ful­filled the same unto us their chil­dren, in that he hath raised up Je­sus again; as it is also writ­ten in the sec­ond psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I be­got­ten thee. 34 And as con­cern­ing that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to re­turn to cor­rup­tion, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mer­cies of David. 35 Where­fore he saith also in an­oth­er psalm, Thou shalt not suf­fer thine Holy One to see cor­rup­tion. 36 For David, af­ter he had served his own gen­er­a­tion by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fa­thers, and saw cor­rup­tion: 37 But he, whom God raised again, saw no cor­rup­tion. 38 Be it known unto you there­fore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the for­give­ness of sins: 39 And by him all that be­lieve are jus­ti­fied from all things, from which ye could not be jus­ti­fied by the law of Moses. 40 Be­ware there­fore, lest that come upon you, which is spo­ken of in the prophets; 41 Be­hold, ye de­spis­ers, and won­der, and per­ish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise be­lieve, though a man de­clare it unto you. 42 And when the Jews were gone out of the syn­a­gogue, the Gen­tiles be­sought that these words might be preached to them the next sab­bath. 43 Now when the con­gre­ga­tion was bro­ken up, many of the Jews and re­li­gious pros­e­lytes fol­lowed Paul and Barn­abas: who, speak­ing to them, per­suad­ed them to con­tin­ue in the grace of God. 44 And the next sab­bath day came al­most the whole city to­geth­er to hear the word of God. 45 But when the Jews saw the mul­ti­tudes, they were filled with en­vy, and spake against those things which were spo­ken by Paul, con­tra­dict­ing and blas­phem­ing. 46 Then Paul and Barn­abas waxed bold, and said, It was nec­es­sary that the word of God should first have been spo­ken to you: but see­ing ye put it from you, and judge your­selves un­wor­thy of ev­er­last­ing life, lo, we turn to the Gen­tiles. 47 For so hath the Lord com­mand­ed us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gen­tiles, that thou shouldest be for sal­va­tion unto the ends of the earth. 48 And when the Gen­tiles heard this, they were glad, and glo­ri­fied the word of the Lord: and as many as were or­dained to eter­nal life be­lieved. 49 And the word of the Lord was pub­lished through­out all the re­gion. 50 But the Jews stirred up the de­vout and hon­ourable wom­en, and the chief men of the city, and raised per­se­cu­tion against Paul and Barn­abas, and ex­pelled them out of their coasts. 51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Ico­ni­um. 52 And the dis­ci­ples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.