3 12:18And when it was day there was no small stir among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter. 12:19And Herod seeking and not finding him, examined the guards, and commanded them to be put to death, and going down from Judea to Cæsarea remained [there].
4 12:20And he was displeased with the Tyrians and Sidonians; but they came with one accord to him, and having persuaded Blastus who was over the king's bedchamber, desired peace, because their country was nourished by the king's. 12:21And on an appointed day Herod having put on his royal apparel, and sitting on the tribunal, made a speech to them; 12:22and the people shouted, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. 12:23And an angel of the Lord instantly smote him because he gave not glory to God, and being eaten with worms he expired. 12:24And the word of God grew and was increased.
CHAPTER XI.
THE FIRST MISSION OF PAUL AND BARNABAS TO CYPRUS AND ASIA MINOR.—A.D. 46-49.
1 12:25AND Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having performed the service, taking with them also John who was called Mark. 13:1And there were prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch; Barnabas and Simeon called Niger [the black], and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen the foster brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul. 13:2And while they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them. 13:3Then having fasted and prayed and imposed hands on them, they sent them forth. 13:4They, therefore, being sent forth by the Holy Spirit went down to Seleucia, and thence sailed to Cyprus; 13:5and coming to Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews; and they also had John for a servant.
2 13:6And having gone through the whole island to Paphos, they found a certain magian, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus, 13:7who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man having called for Barnabas and Saul desired to hear the word of God; 13:8but Elymas the magian, for so his name is interpreted, opposed them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith. 13:9But Saul, [called] also Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looking steadily at him 13:10said, O full of all deceit and all craft, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? 13:11And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell upon him a mist and darkness, and going about he sought guides. 13:12Then the proconsul seeing what was done believed, and was astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
3 13:13And those with Paul, sailing from Paphos, went to Perga in Pamphylia; but John left them and returned to Jerusalem. 13:14And passing on from Perga, they went to Antioch in Pisidia, and going into the synagogue on the Sabbath they sat down. 13:15And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the synagogue rulers sent to them, saying, Men and brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.
4 13:16And Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand, said, Men of Israel, and you that fear God, hear. 13:17The God of this people chose our fathers, and raised up the people in the exile in the land of Egypt, and brought them out of it with a high arm. 13:18And when he had borne with their conduct forty years in the wilderness, 13:19and had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he distributed their land to them by lot. 13:20And after this he gave judges four hundred and fifty years till Samuel the prophet. 13:21And then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years; 13:22and removing him, he raised up for them David for a king, of whom also he said and testified, I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.
5 13:23Of the posterity of this man, according to his promise, has God raised up to Israel a Saviour, Jesus; 13:24John having preached before his coming the baptism of a change of mind to all the people of Israel. 13:25And when John completed his course, he said, Who do you suppose I am? I am not [the Christ]; but behold, there comes after me one the sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.
6 13:26Men and brothers, children of the race of Abraham, and you that fear God, the word of this salvation is sent to you. 13:27For those living at Jerusalem, and their rulers, not knowing him and the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning [him]; 13:28and [although] they found no cause of death [in him], they requested of Pilate that he might be destroyed; 13:29and when they had performed all things written of him, they took him down from the cross and placed him in a tomb. 13:30But God raised him from the dead, 13:31and he appeared many days to those who went up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people. 13:32And we declare to you the good news of the promise made to the fathers, 13:33that God has fulfilled this to us their children in raising up Jesus, as it is written also in the first psalm, You are my son, to-day have I begotten you. 13:34And that he raised him from the dead never more to return to destruction, he said thus; I will give you the sure promises of David. 13:35Wherefore also in another place he says, Thou wilt not suffer thy holy one to see destruction. 13:36For David, having in his generation served the will of God, fell asleep, and was gathered to his fathers and saw destruction; 13:37but he whom God raised up saw not destruction. 13:38Be it known to you therefore, men and brothers, that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins, 13:39and every one who believes is justified by him from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses. 13:40See then that what is said by the prophets does not come upon you; 13:41Behold, despisers, and wonder and perish, for I perform a work in your days, a work which you shall by no means believe even if one declares it to you.