13:4 So Barnabas and Saul, ¹  sent out by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, ²  and from there they sailed to Cyprus. ³  13:5 When ⁴  they arrived ⁵  in Salamis, ⁶  they began to proclaim ⁷  the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. ⁸  (Now they also had John ⁹  as their assistant.) ¹⁰  13:6 When they had crossed over ¹¹  the whole island as far as Paphos, ¹²  they found a magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus, ¹³  13:7 who was with the proconsul ¹⁴  Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. The proconsul ¹⁵  summoned ¹⁶  Barnabas and Saul and wanted to hear ¹⁷  the word of God. 13:8 But the magician Elymas ¹⁸  (for that is the way his name is translated) ¹⁹  opposed them, trying to turn the proconsul ²⁰  away from the faith. 13:9 But Saul (also known as Paul), ²¹  filled with the Holy Spirit, ²²  stared straight ²³  at him 13:10 and said, “You who are full of all deceit and all wrongdoing, ²⁴  you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness – will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord? ²⁵  13:11 Now ²⁶  look, the hand of the Lord is against ²⁷  you, and you will be blind, unable to see the sun for a time!” Immediately mistiness ²⁸  and darkness came over ²⁹  him, and he went around seeking people ³⁰  to lead him by the hand. 13:12 Then when the proconsul ³¹  saw what had happened, he believed, ³²  because he was greatly astounded ³³  at the teaching about ³⁴  the Lord.