Acts Chapter 13

• Acts 13:1
  Acts.
• Acts 13:2
  Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the fos...
• Acts 13:3
  As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”
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  Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
• Acts 13:5
  So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus.
• Acts 13:6
  When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed God’s word in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John as their attendant.
• Acts 13:7
  When they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew whose name was Bar Jesus,
• Acts 13:8
  who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.
• Acts 13:9
  But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.
• Acts 13:10
  But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him
• Acts 13:11
  and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of t...
• Acts 13:12
  Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!” Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He ...
• Acts 13:13
  Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
• Acts 13:14
  Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem.
• Acts 13:15
  But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down.
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  After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for th...
• Acts 13:17
  Paul stood up, and gesturing with his hand said, “Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen.
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  The God of this people chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led the...
• Acts 13:19
  For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
• Acts 13:20
  When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance for about four hundred fifty years.
• Acts 13:21
  After these things, he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.
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  Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
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  When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, w...
• Acts 13:24
  From this man’s offspring, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise,
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  before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.
• Acts 13:26
  As John was fulfilling his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me, the sandals of whose feet I a...
• Acts 13:27
  “Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.
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  For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfill...
• Acts 13:29
  Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.
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  When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.
• Acts 13:31
  But God raised him from the dead,
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  and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.
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  We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers,
• Acts 13:34
  that God has fulfilled this to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son. Today I hav...
• Acts 13:35
  “Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings...
• Acts 13:36
  Therefore he says also in another psalm, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.’
• Acts 13:37
  For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.
• Acts 13:38
  But he whom God raised up saw no decay.
• Acts 13:39
  Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins;
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  and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
• Acts 13:41
  Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is spoken in the prophets:
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  ‘Behold, you scoffers! Wonder and perish, for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’”
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  So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.
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  Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to contin...
• Acts 13:45
  The next Sabbath, almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God.
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  But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.
• Acts 13:47
  Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yoursel...
• Acts 13:48
  For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the e...
• Acts 13:49
  As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
• Acts 13:50
  The Lord’s word was spread abroad throughout all the region.
• Acts 13:51
  But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and thre...
• Acts 13:52
  But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.
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  The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.