Acts 13 — WBMS
13Verse 1And prophets and doctors were in the church that was at Antioch, in which Barnabas, and Simon, that was called Black, and Lucius Cyreneus, and Manaen, that was the suckling-frère of Herod tetrarch, that is, prince of the fourth part, and Saul were.Verse 2And when they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said to them, Set apart ye to me Saul and Barnabas, into the work to which I have taken them.Verse 3Then they fasted, and prayed, and laid hands on them, and let them go.Verse 4But they were sent of the Holy Ghost, and went forth to Seleucia, and from thence they went by boat to Cyprus.Verse 5And when they came to Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of Jews; and they had also John in ministry [or in service].Verse 6And when they had walked by all the isle to Paphos, they found a man, a witch, [or they found some man witch], a false prophet, a Jew, to whom the name was Barjesus,Verse 7that was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, a prudent man. This called Barnabas and Paul, and desired to hear the word of God.Verse 8But Elymas the witch withstood them; for his name is expounded so; and he sought to turn away the proconsul from belief.Verse 9But Saul, which is said also Paul, was filled with the Holy Ghost, and beheld into him,Verse 10and said, A! thou full of all guile, and all falseness, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all rightwise-ness, thou leavest not to turn upside-down, [or to subvert, or to destroy], the rightful ways of the Lord.Verse 11And now lo! the hand of the Lord is on thee, and thou shalt be blind, and not seeing the sun into a time. And anon, [a] mist and darkness felled down on him; and he went about, and sought him that should give [the] hand to him.Verse 12Then the proconsul, when he had seen the deed, believed, wondering on the teaching of the Lord.Verse 13And when from Paphos Paul had gone by boat, and they that were with him, they came to Perga of Pamphylia; but John departed from them, and turned again to Jerusalem.Verse 14And they went from Perga, and came to Antioch of Pisidia; and they entered into the synagogue in the day of sabbaths, and sat.Verse 15And after the reading of the law and of the prophets, the princes of the synagogue sent to them, and said, Brethren, if any word of exhortation to the people is in you, say ye.Verse 16And Paul rose, and with hand bade silence, and said, Men of Israel, and ye that dread God, hear ye.Verse 17God of the people of Israel chose our fathers, and enhanced the people, when they were comelings in the land of Egypt, and in an high arm he led them out of it;Verse 18and by the time of forty years he suffered their manners in desert.Verse 19And he destroyed seven folks in the land of Canaan, and by sort parted to them their land,Verse 20as after four hundred and fifty years. And after these things he gave doomsmen, [till] to Samuel, the prophet.Verse 21And from that time they asked a king, and God gave to them Saul, the son of Cis, a man of the lineage of Benjamin, by forty years.Verse 22And when he was done away, he raised to them David the king, to whom he bare witnessing, and said, I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after mine heart, which shall do all my will.Verse 23Of whose seed by the promise God hath led out to Israel a Saviour Jesus,Verse 24when John preached before the face of his coming the baptism of penance to all the people of Israel.Verse 25But when John [ful] filled his course, he said, I am not he, whom ye deem me to be; but lo! he cometh after me, and I am not worthy to do off [or to unbind] the shoes of his feet.Verse 26Brethren, and sons of the kind of Abraham, and which that in you dread God, to you the word of health is sent.Verse 27For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and princes of it, that knew not this Jesus, and the voices of prophets, that by every sabbath be read, deemed, and fulfilled;Verse 28and they found in him no cause of death, and asked of Pilate, that they should slay him.Verse 29And when they had ended all things that were written of him, they took him down off the tree, and laid him in a grave.Verse 30And God raised him from death in the third day;Verse 31which was seen by many days to them that went up together with him from Galilee into Jerusalem, which be till now his witnesses to the people.Verse 32And we show to you the promise that was made to our fathers;Verse 33for God hath fulfilled this to their sons, and again-raised Jesus; as in the second psalm it is written, Thou art my Son, today I begat thee.Verse 34And he that again-raised him from death, that he should not turn again into corruption, said thus, For I shall give to you the holy true things of David.Verse 35Therefore and in another stead he saith, Thou shalt not give thine Holy to see corruption.Verse 36But David in his generation, when he had ministered to the will of God, died [or slept], and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption;Verse 37but he whom God raised from death, saw not corruption.Verse 38Therefore, brethren, be it known to you, that by him remission of sins is told to you,Verse 39from all sins, of which ye might not be justified in the law of Moses. In this each man that believeth, is justified.Verse 40Therefore see ye, that it come not to you, that is before-said in the prophets,Verse 41Ye despisers, see ye, and wonder ye, and be ye scattered abroad; for I work a work in your days, a work that ye shall not believe, if any man shall tell it[out] to you.Verse 42And when they went out, they prayed, that in the sabbath pursuing, they should speak to them these words.Verse 43And when the synagogue was let go, many of the Jews and comelings worshipping God pursued Paul and Barnabas; that spake, and counselled them, that they should dwell in the grace of God.Verse 44And in the sabbath pursuing, almost all the city came together, to hear the word of God.Verse 45And Jews saw the people, and were filled with envy, and gainsaid these things that were said of Paul, and blasphemed.Verse 46Then Paul and Barnabas stead-fastly said, To you it behooved first to speak the word of God; but for ye put it away, and have deemed you unworthy to [or of] everlasting life, lo! we turn to heathen men.Verse 47For so the Lord commanded us, I have set thee into light of heathen men, that thou be into health to the utmost [or the uttermost] of the earth.Verse 48And heathen men heard, and joyed, and glorified the word of the Lord; and believed, as many as were before-ordained to everlasting life.Verse 49And the word of the Lord was [far] sown in all that country.Verse 50But the Jews stirred religious women, and honest, and the worthiest [or the first] men of the city, and stirred persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their countries.Verse 51And they shook away into them the dust of their feet, and came to Iconium.Verse 52And the disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Ghost.