MODERN LITERAL VERSION

13:1 Now there were some prophets and teachers in the congregation* that was in Antioch: both Barnabas, and Symeon who was called Niger, and Lucius from Cyrene, and Manaen, a foster-brother of Herod the Tetrarch and Saul.
13:2 Now while they were ministering* to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate* Barnabas and Saul for me *for the work to which I have called them.
13:3 Then when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they dismissed them.

13:4 Therefore indeed, these men, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and sailed to Cyprus from there.
13:5 And when they happened to be in Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they also had John, an attendant.
13:6 And when they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain magician, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Son of Joshua;
13:7 who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This one sought to hear the word of God, having called to him Barnabas and Saul.
13:8 But Elymas the magician (for* so is his name by translation) was withstanding them, seeking to pervert the proconsul away from the faith.
13:9 But Saul, who is also called Paul, being filled with the Holy Spirit, having stared toward him,
13:10 said, O full of all treachery and all villainy, you son of the Devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?
13:11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and will not see the sun till the next season. And instantly dimness and darkness fell upon him, and going around, he sought someone to lead him by the hand.
13:12 Then when he saw what had happened, the proconsul believed, being astounded by the teaching of the Lord.

13:13 Now Paul, with those around him, having set-sail from Paphos, came to Perga in Pamphylia, and John having departed from them, returned to Jerusalem.

13:14 But they, going through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia {Asia Minor.} , and they went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down.
13:15 And after the public-reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent for them, saying, Brethren, if there is a word of encouragement to the people in you*, speak it.

13:16 And Paul stood up and beckoning with the hand, said,
Men, Israelites, and you* who fear God, listen:
13:17 The God of this people chose our fathers and exalted the people in their foreign residency, in the land of Egypt and with a high arm he led them forth out of it.
13:18 And he put up with their mannerisms in the wilderness for approximately the time of forty years.
13:19 And when he had demolished seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave to them their land for an inheritance, for approximately four hundred and fifty years.
13:20 And he gave them judges after these things until Samuel the prophet.
13:21 And from thereon, 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.
13:22 And when he had removed him, he lifted up David to be their king; to whom he also testified and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man according to my own heart, who will do all my will.

13:23 God brought salvation from the seed of this man David, according to a promise to Israel,
13:24 when John preached beforehand the immersion* of repentance to Israel, before his face and before his entrance.
13:25 And as John was fulfilling his course, he said, Who do you* perceive that I am? I am not he. But behold, there is one coming after me, the shoes of whose feet I am not worthy to loosen.
13:26 Brethren, sons from the race of Abraham and those among you* who fear God, to us is sent forth the word of this salvation.
13:27 For* those dwelling in Jerusalem and their rulers, being ignorant of him and the voices of the prophets who are read on every Sabbath, they fulfilled them by judging him to death.
13:28 And though no one found a crime worthy of death in him, they still asked Pilate to assassinate him.
13:29 And when they had finished all things that were written concerning him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.
13:30 But God raised him up from the dead;
13:31 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.
13:32 And we proclaim to you* the good-news of the promise which came* to the fathers, that God has fulfilled this for us, their children, in that he raised* up Jesus;
13:33 as it has also been written in the second Psalm, ‘You are my Son; I have fathered you today.' {Ps. 2:7}
13:34 And that he raised* him up from the dead, no longer to return to decay, he has spoken thus, I will give you* the faithful and holy things of David.
13:35 Hence he also says in another psalm, ‘You will not give your Holy One to see decay.' {Ps. 16:10}
13:36 For* indeed David, having attended to the counsel of God in his own generation, fell-asleep and was added to his fathers and saw decay;
13:37 but he whom God raised up saw no decay.
13:38 Therefore brethren, let it be known to you* that forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you* through this man;
13:39 and in him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you* could not be justified by the Law of Moses.
13:40 Therefore beware, that what has been spoken in the prophets might not come upon you*:
13:41 ‘You* despisers, behold and marvel and disappear, because I am working a work in your* days, a work which you* may never* believe, even if someone describes it to you*.' {Hab. 1:5}

13:42 But as the Jews were going out of the synagogue, the Gentiles pleaded with him that these words might be spoken to them at the ensuing Sabbath.
13:43 And when the synagogue dissolved, many of the Jews and the pious Jewish-converts followed Paul and Barnabas; who speaking to them, persuaded them to remain in the grace of God.

13:44 And the next Sabbath, almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God.
13:45 But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming him.

13:46 But Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you*. But since you* are thrusting it from yourselves and are judging yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
13:47 For* so the Lord has commanded us, saying, ‘I have placed you to be a light of the Gentiles, that you should be *for salvation to the outermost parts of the earth.' {Is. 42:6}

13:48 And as the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and as many as believed were appointed toward everlasting life.
13:49 And the word of the Lord was carried through all the country.

13:50 But the Jews spurred on the pious and prominent women and the foremost ones of the city, and aroused a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their borders.
13:51 But they shook-off the dirt of their feet against them and came to Iconium.
13:52 And the disciples were being filled from joy and the Holy Spirit.