13Acts 13

1Now there were in the church which was at Antioch prophets and doctors, among whom was Barnabas and Simon who was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene and Manahen who was the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.Select Acts 13:1

2And as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Ghost said to them: Separate me Saul and Barnabas, for the work whereunto I have taken them.Select Acts 13:2

3Then they fasting and praying and imposing their hands upon them, sent them away.Select Acts 13:3

4So they, being sent by the Holy Ghost, went to Seleucia: and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.Select Acts 13:4

5And when they were come to Salamina, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John also in the ministry.Select Acts 13:5

6And when they had gone through the whole island, as far as Paphos, they found a certain man, a magician, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-Jesu:Select Acts 13:6

7Who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, a prudent man. He, sending for Barnabas and Saul, desired to hear the word of God.Select Acts 13:7

8But Elymas the magician (for so his name is interpreted) withstood them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith.Select Acts 13:8

9Then Saul, otherwise Paul, filled with the Holy Ghost, looking upon him,Select Acts 13:9

10Said: O full of all guile and of all deceit, child of the devil, enemy of all justice, thou ceases not to pervert the right ways of the Lord.Select Acts 13:10

11And now behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee: and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a time. And immediately there fell a mist and darkness upon him: and going about, he sought some one to lead him by the hand.Select Acts 13:11

12Then the proconsul, when he had seen what was done, believed, admiring at the doctrine of the Lord.Select Acts 13:12

13Now when Paul and they that were with him had sailed from Paphos, they came to Perge in Pamphylia. And John departing from them, returned to Jerusalem.Select Acts 13:13

14But they, passing through Perge, came to Antioch in Pisidia: and, entering into the Synagogue on the sabbath day, they sat down.Select Acts 13:14

15And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying: Ye men, brethren, if you have any word of exhortation to make to the people, speak.Select Acts 13:15

16Then Paul rising up and with his hand bespeaking silence, said: Ye men of Israel and you that fear God, give ear.Select Acts 13:16

17The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people when they were sojourners in the land of Egypt: And with an high arm brought them out from thence:Select Acts 13:17

18And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the desert:Select Acts 13:18

19And, destroying seven nations in the land of Chaanan, divided their land among them by lot.Select Acts 13:19

20As it were, after four hundred and fifty years. And after these things, he gave unto them judges, until Samuel the prophet.Select Acts 13:20

21And after that they desired a king: and God gave them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years.Select Acts 13:21

22And when he had removed him, he raised them up David to be king: to whom giving testimony, he said: I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man according to my own heart, who shall do all my wills.Select Acts 13:22

23Of this man's seed, God, according to his promise, hath raised up to Israel a Saviour Jesus:Select Acts 13:23

24John first preaching, before his coming, the baptism of penance to all the people of Israel.Select Acts 13:24

25And when John was fulfilling his course, he said: I am not he whom you think me to be. But behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.Select Acts 13:25

26Men, brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you fear God: to you the word of this salvation is sent.Select Acts 13:26

27For they that inhabited Jerusalem and the rulers thereof, not knowing him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath, judging him, have fulfilled them.Select Acts 13:27

28And finding no cause of death in him, they desired of Pilate that they might kill him.Select Acts 13:28

29And when they had fulfilled all things that were written of him, taking him down from the tree, they laid him in a sepulchre.Select Acts 13:29

30But God raised him up from the dead the third day.Select Acts 13:30

31Who was seen for many days by them who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who to this present are his witnesses to the people.Select Acts 13:31

32And we declare unto you that the promise which was made to our fathers,Select Acts 13:32

33This same God hath fulfilled to our children, raising up Jesus, as in the second psalm also is written: Thou art my Son: this day have I begotten thee.Select Acts 13:33

34And to shew that he raised him up from the dead, not to return now any more to corruption, he said thus: I will give you the holy things of David, faithful.Select Acts 13:34

35And therefore, in another place also, he saith: Thou shalt not suffer thy holy one to see corruption.Select Acts 13:35

36For David, when he had served in his generation, according to the will of God, slept: and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption.Select Acts 13:36

37But he whom God hath raised from the dead saw no corruption.Select Acts 13:37

38Be it known therefore to you, men, brethren, that through him forgiveness of sins is preached to you: and from all the things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.Select Acts 13:38

39In him every one that believeth is justified.Select Acts 13:39

40Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken in the prophets:Select Acts 13:40

41Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you will not believe, if any man shall tell it you.Select Acts 13:41

42And as they went out, they desired them that on the next sabbath they would speak unto them these words.Select Acts 13:42

43And when the synagogue was broken up, many of the Jews and of the strangers who served God followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.Select Acts 13:43

44But the next sabbath day, the whole city almost came together, to hear the word of God.Select Acts 13:44

45And the Jews, seeing the multitudes, were filled with envy and contradicted those things which were said by Paul, blaspheming.Select Acts 13:45

46Then Paul and Barnabas said boldly: To you it behoved us first to speak the word of God: but because you reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold we turn to the Gentiles.Select Acts 13:46

47For so the Lord hath commanded us: I have set thee to be the light of the Gentiles: that thou mayest be for salvation unto the utmost part of the earth.Select Acts 13:47

48And the Gentiles hearing it were glad and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to life everlasting believed.Select Acts 13:48

49And the word of the Lord was published throughout the whole country.Select Acts 13:49

50But the Jews stirred up religious and honourable women and the chief men of the city: and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas: and cast them out of their coasts.Select Acts 13:50

51But they, shaking off the dust of their feet against them, came to Iconium.Select Acts 13:51

52And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Ghost.Select Acts 13:52