Acts 13 (NET)

Acts 13:1¹Now there were these prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen (a close friend of Herod the tetrarch from childhood ) and Saul.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 4:36Acts 15:35Acts 11:22-27Acts 13:9Gal 2:91 Cor 14:24-25Acts 15:32Eph 4:11Luke 3:11 Cor 12:28-29

Acts 13:2²While they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 1:15Acts 9:151 Cor 12:112 Tim 1:11Rom 1:1Acts 14:26Dan 9:31 Tim 2:7Acts 22:211 Sam 2:11

Acts 13:3³Then, after they had fasted and prayed and placed their hands on them, they sent them off.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 6:62 Tim 2:21 Tim 4:14Acts 13:2Acts 14:23Acts 14:261 Tim 5:223 John 1:8Num 27:23Rom 10:15

Acts 13:4⁴So Barnabas and Saul, sent out by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 4:36Acts 13:2Acts 11:19Acts 20:23Acts 27:4

Acts 13:5⁵When they arrived in Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. (Now they also had John as their assistant.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 13:14Acts 13:46Acts 12:12Acts 14:1Acts 17:17Acts 18:4Acts 19:8Acts 9:202 Tim 4:11Acts 12:25

Acts 13:6⁶When they had crossed over the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 7:151 John 4:12 Cor 11:13Deut 13:1-3Exod 22:18Ezek 13:10-16Jer 23:14-15Mark 10:46Matt 16:17Matt 24:24

Acts 13:7⁷who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. The proconsul summoned Barnabas and Saul and wanted to hear the word of God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 13:12Acts 19:38Acts 18:12Prov 18:15Acts 13:81 Thess 5:21Acts 17:11-12Hos 14:9Prov 14:15Prov 14:18

Acts 13:8⁸But the magician Elymas (for that is the way his name is translated) opposed them, trying to turn the proconsul away from the faith.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 3:82 Tim 4:14-15Acts 13:6-7Acts 13:12Acts 9:361 Kgs 22:24Acts 6:7Acts 8:9Exod 7:11-13Jer 28:1

Acts 13:9⁹But Saul (also known as Paul), filled with the Holy Spirit, stared straight at himCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mic 3:8Acts 4:8Acts 2:4Acts 7:55Mark 3:5Acts 4:31

Acts 13:10¹⁰and said, “You who are full of all deceit and all wrongdoing, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness—will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 8:442 Cor 11:3Matt 13:38Gal 1:7Hos 14:9Luke 11:521 John 3:8Acts 8:20-232 Pet 2:15Acts 18:25-26

Acts 13:11¹¹Now look, the hand of the Lord is against you, and you will be blind, unable to see the sun for a time!” Immediately mistiness and darkness came over him, and he went around seeking people to lead him by the hand.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 9:3Ps 32:41 Sam 5:11Heb 10:312 Pet 2:17Job 19:21John 9:391 Sam 5:6-71 Sam 5:92 Kgs 6:8

Acts 13:12¹²Then when the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, because he was greatly astounded at the teaching about the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 10:4-5Acts 13:7Luke 4:22Acts 13:49Acts 15:35Acts 19:7Acts 28:7Acts 6:10John 7:46Luke 7:16

Acts 13:13¹³Then Paul and his companions put out to sea from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia, but John left them and returned to Jerusalem.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 15:38Acts 12:12Acts 13:5-6Acts 14:24-25Acts 2:10Acts 27:52 Tim 4:11Acts 27:13Col 4:10

Acts 13:14¹⁴Moving on from Perga, they arrived at Pisidian Antioch, and on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 16:13Acts 13:5Acts 14:19Acts 17:2Acts 18:4Acts 13:42Acts 13:44Acts 19:8Acts 9:20Acts 14:21-24

Acts 13:15¹⁵After the reading from the law and the prophets, the leaders of the synagogue sent them a message, saying, “Brothers, if you have any message of exhortation for the people, speak it.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 13:22Acts 15:21Mark 5:221 Cor 14:3Acts 13:27Acts 18:17Acts 22:1Luke 4:16-18Rom 12:8Acts 1:16

Acts 13:16¹⁶So Paul stood up, gestured with his hand and said, “Men of Israel, and you Gentiles who fear God, listen:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 12:17Acts 10:2Acts 13:261 Kgs 8:40Acts 10:35Acts 13:42-43Acts 13:46Acts 19:33Acts 2:14Acts 2:22

Acts 13:17¹⁷The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and made the people great during their stay as foreigners in the country of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 7:6-8Acts 7:2-53Isa 63:9-14Ps 105:23-241 Pet 2:91 Sam 4:8Amos 2:10Deut 10:22Deut 14:2Deut 4:20

Acts 13:18¹⁸For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 7:36Acts 7:39-43Amos 5:25-26Deut 1:31Deut 9:21-24Deut 9:7Exod 16:2Exod 16:35Ezek 20:10-17Heb 3:16-19

Acts 13:19¹⁹After he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave his people their land as an inheritance.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 7:1Ps 78:55Acts 7:45Josh 14:1Josh 19:51Gen 17:8Gen 12:5Josh 18:10Josh 24:11Neh 9:24

Acts 13:20²⁰All this took about 450 years. After this he gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Judg 2:161 Sam 3:201 Chr 17:61 Sam 12:112 Kgs 23:222 Sam 7:11Acts 3:24Judg 3:10Ruth 1:1

Acts 13:21²¹Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 10:11 Sam 15:11 Sam 10:21-261 Sam 11:151 Sam 12:12-191 Sam 8:5-9:2

Acts 13:22²²After removing him, God raised up David their king. He testified about him: ‘I have found David the son of Jesse to be a man after my heart, who will accomplish everything I want him to do.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 13:13-141 Kgs 15:51 Sam 16:13Ps 78:70-721 Sam 16:11 Sam 15:261 Sam 15:28Ezek 37:24-25Ps 89:19-37Hos 13:10-11

Acts 13:23²³From the descendants of this man God brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, just as he promised.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 1:1Ps 132:11Rev 22:16Acts 13:32Jude 1:25Titus 3:3-62 Pet 3:22 Sam 7:12Isa 11:1Isa 11:10

Acts 13:24²⁴Before Jesus arrived, John had proclaimed a baptism for repentance to all the people of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 1:22Acts 10:37Acts 19:3-4Luke 3:2-20Mark 1:2-8Matt 3:1-11John 1:15-18John 1:6-8John 3:25-36John 5:33-36

Acts 13:25²⁵But while John was completing his mission, he said repeatedly, ‘What do you think I am? I am not he. But look, one is coming after me. I am not worthy to untie the sandals on his feet!’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 3:11John 1:26-27Mark 1:7Acts 20:24John 1:20-23Luke 3:15-162 Cor 4:52 Tim 4:7Acts 13:36Acts 19:4

Acts 13:26²⁶Brothers, descendants of Abraham’s family, and those Gentiles among you who fear God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 1:5Eph 1:13Isa 46:13Luke 1:69Luke 1:77Rom 1:16Acts 10:35Acts 13:43Acts 13:46Acts 4:12

Acts 13:27²⁷For the people who live in Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize him, and they fulfilled the sayings of the prophets that are read every Sabbath by condemning him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 3:17Acts 15:21Acts 26:22-23Luke 24:20Luke 24:24-27Rom 11:251 Cor 2:82 Cor 3:142 Cor 4:4Acts 28:23

Acts 13:28²⁸Though they found no basis for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 19:4Luke 23:14-16Luke 23:21-25Matt 27:22-25Acts 3:13-14John 18:38Luke 23:4-5Mark 15:13-15Matt 27:19John 19:12-16

Acts 13:29²⁹When they had accomplished everything that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and placed him in a tomb.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 23:53John 19:28John 19:301 Cor 15:4Acts 5:30John 19:36-42Luke 24:44Mark 15:45-46Matt 27:57-60Acts 13:27

Acts 13:30³⁰But God raised him from the dead,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 2:24Acts 17:31Matt 28:6Acts 10:40Acts 2:32Acts 3:13Acts 3:15Acts 3:26Acts 4:10Acts 5:30-31

Acts 13:31³¹and for many days he appeared to those who had accompanied him from Galilee to Jerusalem. These are now his witnesses to the people.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 1:3Luke 24:481 Cor 15:5-7Acts 1:11Acts 1:8Matt 28:16Acts 1:22Acts 10:39Acts 10:41Acts 2:32

Acts 13:32³²And we proclaim to you the good news about the promise to our ancestors,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 4:13Acts 26:6Ezek 34:23Acts 13:38Gal 3:16-18Jer 23:5Mic 5:2Rom 9:4Zech 6:12Acts 3:19

Acts 13:33³³that this promise God has fulfilled to us, their children, by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son; today I have fathered you.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 2:7Heb 5:5Heb 1:5-6

Acts 13:34³⁴But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus from the dead, never again to be in a state of decay, God has spoken in this way: ‘I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 55:3Ps 89:2-4Rom 6:9Ps 89:19-372 Sam 7:14-16Ezek 34:23-24Jer 33:15-17Jer 33:262 Sam 23:5Acts 13:37

Acts 13:35³⁵Therefore he also says in another psalm, ‘You will not permit your Holy One to experience decay.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 16:10Acts 2:27-31Acts 13:36-37Heb 11:5John 3:36John 8:51Luke 2:26Ps 49:9Ps 89:48

Acts 13:36³⁶For David, after he had served God’s purpose in his own generation, died, was buried with his ancestors, and experienced decay,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 2:291 Kgs 2:102 Sam 7:12Acts 13:221 Chr 18:141 Chr 13:2-41 Chr 15:25-291 Chr 17:111 Chr 22:1-191 Cor 15:18

Acts 13:37³⁷but the one whom God raised up did not experience decay.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 13:30Acts 2:24

Acts 13:38³⁸Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through this one forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 24:471 John 2:122 Cor 5:18-21Acts 5:31Col 1:14Acts 2:38Acts 28:28Eph 1:71 John 2:1-2Acts 10:43

Acts 13:39³⁹and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 2:16Rom 10:4Heb 7:19Rom 8:3Rom 10:10Rom 8:1Rom 3:19Rom 4:15Rom 4:5-8Gal 3:21-25

Acts 13:40⁴⁰Watch out, then, that what is spoken about by the prophets does not happen to you:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mal 4:1Hab 1:5Heb 12:25Heb 3:12Mal 3:2Heb 2:3Matt 3:9-12Isa 29:14

Acts 13:41⁴¹‘Look, you scoffers; be amazed and perish! For I am doing a work in your days, a work you would never believe, even if someone tells you.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hab 1:51 Pet 4:17Rom 11:7-14Col 1:26-27Isa 28:14-22Matt 22:7-10Prov 5:121 Thess 2:16Acts 13:47Eph 3:3-8

Acts 13:42⁴²As Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people were urging them to speak about these things on the next Sabbath.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 28:28Acts 10:33Acts 13:14Ezek 3:6Matt 11:21Matt 19:30

Acts 13:43⁴³When the meeting of the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and God-fearing proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking with them and were persuading them to continue in the grace of God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 11:23Acts 14:22Heb 12:15Heb 13:92 Cor 5:112 Cor 6:12 John 1:92 Pet 3:17-18Acts 14:3Acts 16:14

Acts 13:44⁴⁴On the next Sabbath almost the whole city assembled together to hear the word of the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 49:10Isa 11:10Isa 60:8Ps 110:3

Acts 13:45⁴⁵But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they began to contradict what Paul was saying by reviling him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jude 1:10Acts 18:61 Thess 2:16Acts 19:9Acts 5:171 Cor 3:31 Pet 4:4Acts 17:5Matt 27:18Acts 6:9-10

Acts 13:46⁴⁶Both Paul and Barnabas replied courageously, “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 28:28Matt 21:43Acts 18:5-6Acts 26:20Acts 3:26Rom 2:10Acts 13:26Acts 22:21Rom 1:16Rom 11:11-13

Acts 13:47⁴⁷For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have appointed you to be a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 49:6Isa 42:6Luke 2:32Isa 45:22Zech 8:20-23Hos 1:10Isa 2:1-3Isa 24:13-16Isa 42:1Isa 42:9-12

Acts 13:48⁴⁸When the Gentiles heard this, they began to rejoice and praise the word of the Lord, and all who had been appointed for eternal life believed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 8:29-30Eph 1:4Rom 11:7John 10:16John 10:26-27John 11:522 Thess 2:13-14Eph 2:5-10Acts 2:41Acts 22:10

Acts 13:49⁴⁹So the word of the Lord was spreading through the entire region.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 12:24Acts 19:10Acts 19:26Acts 6:7Acts 9:42Phil 1:13-14

Acts 13:50⁵⁰But the Jews incited the God-fearing women of high social standing and the prominent men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their region.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 13:45Acts 14:19Acts 14:22 Tim 3:11Acts 17:13Acts 21:27Acts 16:37-391 Thess 2:15-16Acts 13:43Rom 10:2

Acts 13:51⁵¹So after they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them, they went to Iconium.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 10:14Acts 18:6Luke 9:5Acts 14:21Mark 6:11Acts 14:1Acts 14:19Acts 16:22 Tim 3:11

Acts 13:52⁵²And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 1:6Rom 15:13Acts 4:31Gal 5:222 Cor 8:2Acts 2:4Matt 5:12Rom 5:31 Pet 1:6-81 Pet 4:13