1. Now there were prophets and teachers in Antioch in the church that was there: Barnabas, and Simeon (who was called Niger), and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen (a close friend of Herod the tetrarch), and Saul.
2. And while they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart now for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
3. Then, after they had fasted and prayed and placed their hands on them, they sent them away.
4. Therefore, sent out by the Holy Spirit, they came down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed away to Cyprus.
5. And when they came to Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they also had John as assistant.
6. And when they had crossed over the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a certain man, a magician, a Jewish false prophet whose name was Bar-Jesus,
7. who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and wished to hear the word of God.
8. But Elymas the magician (for his name is translated in this way) opposed them, attempting to turn the proconsul away from the faith.