1 Now there were prophets and teachers in Antioch in the church that was there: Barnabas, and Simeon (who was called Niger), and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen (a close friend of Herod the tetrarch), and Saul.
2 And
3 Then,
4 Therefore, sent out by the Holy Spirit, they came down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed away to Cyprus.
5 And
6 And
7 who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul
8 But Elymas the magician (for his name is translated in this way) opposed them, attempting to turn the proconsul away from the faith.
9 But Saul (also called Paul), filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him
11 And now behold, the hand of the Lord
12 Then
13 Now
14 And they went on from Perga
15 So after the reading from the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent
16 So Paul stood up,
17 The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people during
18 And for a period of time
19 And
21 And then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin,
22 And
23 From the descendants of this man, according to
24 Before
25 But while John was completing
26 “Men
27 For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers,
28 And
29 And when they had carried out all the things that were written about him, they took
30 But God raised him from the dead,
31 who appeared for many days to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem—who are now his witnesses to the people.
32 And we proclaim the good news to you: that the promise that was made to the fathers,
33 this
34 But that he has raised him from the dead, no more going to return to decay, he has spoken in this way: ‘I will give you the reliable divine decrees of David.’
35 Therefore he also says in another
36 For David,
37 But he whom God raised up did not experience decay.
38 “Therefore let it be known to you, men
39 by this one everyone who believes is justified!
40 Watch out, therefore, lest what is stated by the prophets come upon
41 ‘Look, you scoffers,
42 And
43 And
44 And on the coming Sabbath, nearly the whole city came together to hear the word of the Lord.
45 But
46 Both Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly
47 For so the Lord has commanded us:
48 And
49 So the word of the Lord was carried through the whole region.
50 But the Jews incited the devout women of high social standing and the most prominent men of the city, and stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and threw them out of their district.
51 So
52 And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.