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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Acts 13 King James 2000</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/acts/13.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/acts/13-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">King James 2000</a> > Acts 13</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../acts/12.htm" title="Acts 12">◄</a> Acts 13 <a href="../acts/14.htm" title="Acts 14">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">King James 2000</div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Holy Spirit Calls Barnabas and Saul to Service</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="black">Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="black">As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said,</span> <span class="red">Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="black">And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.</span></p> <p class="heading">The Gospel Preached on Cyprus</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="black">So they, being sent forth by the Holy Spirit, departed unto Seleucia; and from there they sailed to Cyprus.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="black">And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John as their helper.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="black">And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain magician, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="black">Who was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="black">But Elymas the magician (for so is his name translated) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.</span></p> <p class="heading">Saul Becomes Paul</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="black">Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Spirit, set his eyes on him,</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="black">And said, O full of all deceit and all mischief, you child of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="black">And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a time. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="black">Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.</span></p> <p class="heading">Paul Preaches at Antioch in Pisidia</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="black">Now when Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="black">And when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="black">And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, You men and brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="black">Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and you that fear God, listen.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="black">The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as sojourners in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he brought them out of it.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="black">And about the time of forty years he endured their manners in the wilderness.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="black">And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he divided their land to them by lot.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="black">And after that he gave unto them judges for about four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="black">And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="black">And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said,</span> <span class="red">I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who shall fulfill all my will.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="black">Of this man's descendants has God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Savior, Jesus:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="black">When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="black">And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think you that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there comes one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="black">Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you fears God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="black">For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets who are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="black">And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="black">And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulcher.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="black">But God raised him from the dead:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="black">And he was seen many days of them who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="black">And we declare unto you glad tidings, how the promise which was made unto the fathers,</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="black">God has fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he has raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm,</span> <span class="red">You are my Son, this day have I begotten you.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="black">And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said in this way,</span> <span class="red">I will give you the sure mercies of David.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="black">Therefore he says also in another psalm,</span> <span class="red">You shall not allow your Holy One to see corruption.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="black">For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="black">But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="black">Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span><span class="black">And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span><span class="black">Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span><span class="red">Behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no way believe, though a man declare it unto you.</span></p> <p class="heading">The Gentiles Ask to Hear the Gospel</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span><span class="black">And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span><span class="black">Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span><span class="black">And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span><span class="black">But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spoke against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span><span class="black">Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing you put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span><span class="black">For so has the Lord commanded us, saying,</span> <span class="red">I have set you to be a light of the Gentiles, that you should be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span><span class="black">And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span><span class="black">And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span><span class="black">But the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their district.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span><span class="black">But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/acts/13-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span><span class="black">And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Spirit.</span></p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The King James 2000 Bible, copyright © Doctor of Theology Robert A. 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