10. and said, “O you who are full of all deceit and of all unscrupulousness, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness! Will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord!
11. And now behold, the hand of the Lord is against you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a while. And immediately mist and darkness fell over him, and he was going around looking for people to lead him by the hand.
12. Then when the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, because he was astounded at the teaching about the Lord.
13. Now Paul and his companions put out to sea from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia, but John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem.
14. And they went on from Perga and arrived at Pisidian Antioch. And they entered into the synagogue on the day of the Sabbath and sat down.
15. So after the reading from the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent word to them, saying, “Men and brothers, if there is any message of exhortation by you for the people, say it.”
16. So Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand, he said, “Israelite men, and those who fear God, listen!
17. The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.
18. And for a period of time of about forty years, he put up with them in the wilderness.
19. And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave their land to his people as an inheritance.
20. This took about four hundred and fifty years. And after these things, he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.