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 foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. Act 4:36Act 15:35Act 11:22-27Act 13:9Gal 2:91Co 14:24-25Act 15:32Eph 4:11 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.” Gal 1:15Act 9:151Co 12:112Ti 1:11Rom 1:1Act 14:26Dan 9:31Ti 2:7
Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. Act 6:62Ti 2:21Ti 4:14Act 13:2Act 14:23Act 14:261Ti 5:223Jn 1:8 So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus. Act 4:36Act 13:2Act 11:19Act 20:23Act 27:4 When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed God’s word in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John as their attendant. Act 13:14Act 13:46Act 12:12Act 14:1Act 17:17Act 18:4Act 19:8Act 9:20 When they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew whose name was Bar Jesus, Mat 7:151Jn 4:12Co 11:13Deu 13:1-3Exo 22:18Ezk 13:10-16Jer 23:14-15Mat 16:17 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. Act 13:12Act 19:38Act 18:12Pro 18:15Act 13:81Th 5:21Act 17:11-12Hos 14:9 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith. 2Ti 3:82Ti 4:14-15Act 13:6-7Act 13:12Act 9:361Ki 22:24Act 6:7Act 8:9 But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him Mic 3:8Act 4:8Act 2:4Act 7:55Mrk 3:5Act 4:31Luk 20:17 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 the Lord? Jhn 8:442Co 11:3Mat 13:38Gal 1:7Hos 14:9Luk 11:521Jn 3:8Act 8:20-23 Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!” Exo 9:3Psa 32:41Sa 5:11Heb 10:312Pe 2:17Jhn 9:39Job 19:211Sa 5:6-7
Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand. Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord. 2Co 10:4-5Act 13:7Luk 4:22Act 13:49Act 15:35Act 19:7Act 28:7Act 6:10
Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem. Act 15:38Act 12:12Act 13:5-6Act 14:24-25Act 2:10Act 27:52Ti 4:11Act 27:13 But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down. Act 16:13Act 13:5Act 14:19Act 17:2Act 18:4Act 13:42Act 13:44Act 19:8 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 the people, speak.” Heb 13:22Act 15:21Mrk 5:221Co 14:3Act 13:27Act 18:17Act 22:1Luk 4:16-18
Paul stood up, and gesturing with his hand said, “Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen. Act 12:17Act 10:2Act 13:261Ki 8:40Act 10:35Act 13:42-43Act 13:46Act 19:33 The God of this people 1 chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it. Deu 7:6-8Act 7:2-53Isa 63:9-14Psa 105:23-241Pe 2:91Sa 4:8Amo 2:10Deu 10:22 For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness. Act 7:36Act 7:39-43Amo 5:25-26Deu 1:31Deu 9:21-24Deu 9:7Exo 16:2Exo 16:35 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. Deu 7:1Psa 78:55Act 7:45Jos 14:1Jos 19:51Gen 17:8Gen 12:5Jos 18:10 After these things, he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. Jdg 2:161Sa 3:201Ch 17:61Sa 12:112Ki 23:222Sa 7:11Act 3:24Jdg 3:10 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. 1Sa 10:11Sa 15:11Sa 10:21-261Sa 11:151Sa 12:12-191Sa 8:5 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, who will do all my will.’ 1Sa 13:13-141Ki 15:51Sa 16:13Psa 78:70-721Sa 16:11Sa 15:261Sa 15:28Ezk 37:24-25 From this man’s offspring, God has brought salvation 2 to Israel according to his promise, Mat 1:1Psa 132:11Rev 22:16Act 13:32Jud 1:25Tit 3:3-62Pe 3:22Sa 7:12 before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel. 3 Act 1:22Act 10:37Act 19:3-4Luk 3:2-20Mat 3:1-11Mrk 1:2-8Jhn 1:15-18Jhn 1:6-8 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 am not worthy to untie.’ Mat 3:11Jhn 1:26-27Mrk 1:7Act 20:24Jhn 1:20-23Luk 3:15-162Co 4:52Ti 4:7
“Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you. Col 1:5Eph 1:13Isa 46:13Luk 1:69Luk 1:77Rom 1:16Act 10:35Act 13:43 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, fulfilled them by condemning him. Act 3:17Act 15:21Act 26:22-23Luk 24:20Luk 24:24-27Rom 11:251Co 2:82Co 3:14 Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed. Jhn 19:4Luk 23:14-16Luk 23:21-25Mat 27:22-25Act 3:13-14Jhn 18:38Luk 23:4-5Mat 27:19 When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb. Luk 23:53Jhn 19:28Jhn 19:301Co 15:4Act 5:30Jhn 19:36-42Luk 24:44Mat 27:57-60 But God raised him from the dead, Act 2:24Act 17:31Mat 28:6Act 10:40Act 2:32Act 3:13Act 3:15Act 3:26 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. Act 1:3Luk 24:481Co 15:5-7Act 1:11Act 1:8Mat 28:16Act 1:22Act 10:39 We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers, Rom 4:13Act 26:6Ezk 34:23Act 13:38Gal 3:16-18Jer 23:5Mic 5:2Rom 9:4 that God has fulfilled this to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, Psa 2:7Heb 5:5Heb 1:5-6
‘You are my Son.
Today I have become your father.’ 4
“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 of David.’ 5 Isa 55:3Psa 89:2-4Rom 6:9Psa 89:19-372Sa 7:14-16Ezk 34:23-24Jer 33:15-17Jer 33:26 Therefore he says also in another psalm, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.’ 6 Psa 16:10Act 2:27-31Act 13:36-37Heb 11:5Jhn 3:36Jhn 8:51Luk 2:26Psa 49:9 For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay. Act 2:291Ki 2:102Sa 7:12Act 13:221Ch 18:141Ch 13:2-41Ch 15:25-291Ch 17:11 But he whom God raised up saw no decay. Act 13:30Act 2:24 Be it known to you therefore, brothers, 7 that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins; Luk 24:471Jn 2:122Co 5:18-21Act 5:31Col 1:14Act 2:38Act 28:28Eph 1:7 and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses. Gal 2:16Rom 10:4Heb 7:19Rom 8:3Rom 10:10Rom 8:1Rom 3:19Rom 4:15 Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is spoken in the prophets: Mal 4:1Hab 1:5Heb 12:25Heb 3:12Mal 3:2Heb 2:3Mat 3:9-12Isa 29:14
‘Behold, you scoffers! Hab 1:51Pe 4:17Rom 11:7-14Col 1:26-27Isa 28:14-22Mat 22:7-10Pro 5:121Th 2:16
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.’” 8
So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath. Act 28:28Act 10:33Act 13:14Ezk 3:6Mat 11:21Mat 19:30 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 continue in the grace of God. Act 11:23Act 14:22Heb 12:15Heb 13:92Co 5:112Co 6:12Jn 1:92Pe 3:17-18
The next Sabbath, almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God. Gen 49:10Isa 11:10Isa 60:8Psa 110:3 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed. Jud 1:10Act 18:61Th 2:16Act 19:9Act 5:171Co 3:31Pe 4:4Act 17:5
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 yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles. Act 28:28Mat 21:43Act 18:5-6Act 26:20Act 3:26Rom 2:10Act 13:26Act 22:21 For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, Isa 49:6Isa 42:6Luk 2:32Isa 45:22Zec 8:20-23Hos 1:10Isa 2:1-3Isa 24:13-16
‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles,
that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’” 9
As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed. Rom 8:29-30Eph 1:4Rom 11:7Jhn 10:26-27Jhn 10:16Jhn 11:52Eph 2:5-102Th 2:13-14 The Lord’s word was spread abroad throughout all the region. Act 12:24Act 19:10Php 1:13-14Act 19:26Act 6:7Act 9:42 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 threw them out of their borders. Act 13:45Act 14:19Act 14:22Ti 3:11Act 17:13Act 21:27Act 16:37-391Th 2:15-16 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium. Mat 10:14Act 18:6Luk 9:5Act 14:21Mrk 6:11Act 14:1Act 14:19Act 16:2 The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit. Rom 15:131Th 1:6Act 4:31Gal 5:22Rom 5:32Co 8:2Act 2:4Mat 5:12