[1] Now in the church at Antioch 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 Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. [3] And when they had fasted and prayed, and their hands on them, they sent them away. [4] So 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 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, not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? [11] And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon and blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand. [12] Then the deputy, 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 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 people of Israel chose 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 their manners in the wilderness. [19] And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, their land to them by lot. [20] And after 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 heart, which shall fulfil all will. [23] Of seed God according to his promise 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, Whom think ye I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose. [26] Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among feareth God, the word salvation [27] For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning [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 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 many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who his witnesses unto the people. [32] And glad tidings, the promise which was made unto the fathers, [33] God hath fulfilled their children, Jesus again; as also written in the second psalm, Thou Son, this day have I begotten [34] And as concerning that him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give the sure mercies of David. [35] he saith also in another not suffer Holy One 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 corruption: [37] But he, whom God raised again, no corruption. [38] known therefore, men and brethren, that through is preached the forgiveness of sins: [39] And by 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 which is spoken of in the prophets; [41] ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in days, a work which believe, though a man declare it [42] And were gone besought 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 in the grace of God.