1 En daar was in die plaaslike gemeente in Antioch¡ë sekere profete en leraars, naamlik B rnabas en S¡meon wat Niger genoem word, en Lucius, die Ciren,ër, en Man en, wat saam met Herodes, die viervors, grootgeword het, en Saulus.

2 En terwyl hulle besig was om die Here te dien en te vas, het die Heilige Gees gesê: Sonder nou B rnabas en Saulus vir My af vir die werk waarvoor Ek hulle geroep het.

3 En toe hulle gevas en gebid het en hulle die hande opgelê het, laat hulle hul gaan.

4 So het hulle dan, deur die Heilige Gees uitgestuur, afgegaan na Seleucië en daarvandaan weggevaar na Ciprus.

5 En toe hulle in S lamis kom, het hulle die woord van God in die sinagoges van die Jode verkondig; en hulle het ook Johannes as helper gehad.

6 En hulle het die eiland deurgegaan tot by Pafos en 'n towenaar gevind, 'n valse profeet, 'n Jood met die naam van Bar-Jesus.

7 Hy was by die goewerneur S,rgius Paulus, 'n verstandige man. Di, het B rnabas en Saulus laat roep en het versoek om die woord van God te hoor.

8 Maar limas die towenaar -- want so word sy naam vertaal -- het hulle teëgestaan en het probeer om die goewerneur afkerig te maak van die geloof.

9 Maar Saulus, dit is Paulus, vervul met die Heilige Gees, het die oë op hom gehou en gesê:

10 Kind van die duiwel, vol van alle bedrog en alle listigheid, vyand van alle geregtigheid, sal jy nie ophou om die reguit weë van die Here te verdraai nie?

11 En nou, kyk, die hand van die Here is op jou, en jy sal blind wees en die son 'n tyd lank nie sien nie. En onmiddellik het daar donkerheid en duisternis op hom geval, en hy het rondgegaan en gesoek na mense wat hom by die hand kon lei.

12 Toe die goewerneur dan sien wat daar gebeur het, was hy verslae oor die leer van die Here en het geglo.

13 En Paulus en sy metgeselle het afgevaar van Pafos en by Perge in Pamf¡lië gekom. En Johannes het hulle verlaat en na Jerusalem teruggekeer.

14 Maar hulle het van Perge af verder gegaan en in Antioch¡ë in Pis¡dië aangekom, en hulle het op die sabbatdag in die sinagoge gegaan en gaan sit.

15 En n die lesing van die wet en die profete het die hoofde van die sinagoge na hulle gestuur en gesê: Broeders, as julle 'n woord van opwekking vir die volk het, spreek dan!

16 Toe staan Paulus op, wink met die hand en sê: Israeliete en julle wat God vrees, luister!

17 Die God van hierdie volk Israel het ons vaders uitverkies en die volk verhoog toe hulle bywoners in Egipteland was, en met 'n hoë arm hulle daaruit gelei.

18 En omtrent veertig jaar lank het Hy hulle in die woestyn verdra.

19 En sewe nasies het Hy in die land Kana„n uitgeroei en hulle land deur die lot aan hulle uitgedeel.

20 En daarna omtrent vier honderd en vyftig jaar lank het Hy rigters gegee tot op Samuel, die profeet.

21 En van toe af het hulle 'n koning begeer, en God het aan hulle gegee Saul, die seun van Kis, 'n man uit die stam van Benjamin, veertig jaar lank.

22 En nadat Hy hom afgesit het, het Hy Dawid vir hulle verhef as koning, van wie Hy ook gesê en getuig het: Ek het Dawid, die seun van Isai, gevind, 'n man na my hart, wat al my welbehae sal doen.

23 Uit die nageslag van hierdie man het God vir Israel, volgens die belofte, Jesus as Verlosser verwek,

24 nadat Johannes voor sy koms eers die doop van bekering aan die hele volk van Israel verkondig het.

25 En toe Johannes aan die einde van sy loopbaan gekom het, het hy gesê: Wie dink julle is ek? Ek is dit nie; maar kyk, Hy kom n my, wie se skoen ek nie waardig is om van sy voete los te maak nie.

26 Broeders, kinders van die geslag van Abraham, en die onder julle wat God vrees, vir julle is hierdie woord van verlossing gestuur.

27 Want die inwoners van Jerusalem en hulle owerstes het Hom nie geken nie, en deur Hom te veroordeel, het hulle die woorde van die profete vervul wat elke sabbat gelees word.

28 En al het hulle niks gevind wat die dood verdien nie, tog het hulle van Pilatus gevra dat Hy omgebring moes word.

29 En toe hulle alles volbring het wat oor Hom geskrywe is, het hulle Hom van die kruishout afgehaal en in 'n graf neergelê.

30 Maar God het Hom uit die dode opgewek.

31 En gedurende baie dae het Hy verskyn aan die wat saam met Hom opgegaan het van Galil,a na Jerusalem, en hulle is sy getuies by die volk.

32 En ons bring julle die goeie tyding van die belofte wat aan die vaders gedoen is, dat God dit aan ons, hulle kinders, vervul het deur Jesus op te wek,

33 soos daar ook in die tweede psalm geskrywe is: U is my Seun, vandag het Ek U gegenereer.

34 En dat Hy Hom opgewek het uit die dode, sodat Hy nie meer tot verderwing sou terugkeer nie, het Hy so gespreek: Ek sal aan julle gee die heilige weldade van Dawid wat betroubaar is.

35 Daarom sê Hy ook op 'n ander plek: U sal u Heilige nie oorgee om verderwing te sien nie.

36 Want Dawid het ontslaap, nadat hy sy eie geslag volgens die raad van God gedien het, en is by sy vaders weggelê en het verderwing gesien,

37 maar Hy wat deur God opgewek is, het geen verderwing gesien nie.

38 Laat dit dan aan julle bekend wees, broeders, dat deur Hom vergifnis van sondes aan julle verkondig word,

39 en dat elkeen wat glo, deur Hom geregverdig word van alles waarvan julle deur die wet van Moses nie geregverdig kon word nie.

40 Pas dan op dat daar nie oor julle kom wat deur die profete gesê is nie:

41 Kyk dan, julle veragters, en wees verwonderd en verdwyn! Want Ek gaan iets in julle dae doen, iets wat julle sekerlik nie sal glo as iemand julle dit vertel nie.

42 En toe die Jode uit die sinagoge gaan, het die heidene versoek dat daardie woorde op die volgende sabbat tot hulle gespreek sou word.

43 En toe die sinagoge uit was, het baie van die Jode en die godsdienstige Jodegenote Paulus en B rnabas gevolg. Di, het hulle toegespreek en hulle probeer beweeg om in die genade van God te bly.

44 En op die volgende sabbat het byna die hele stad saamgekom om die woord van God te hoor.

45 Maar toe die Jode die skare sien, is hulle met nydigheid vervul en het met lasterlike woorde weerspreek wat deur Paulus gesê is.

46 Maar Paulus en B rnabas het vry-uit gespreek en gesê: Dit was noodsaaklik dat die woord van God aan julle eers verkondig moes word. Aangesien julle dit egter verwerp en julleself die ewige lewe nie waardig ag nie -- kyk, ons wend ons tot die heidene.

47 Want so het die Here aan ons bevel gegee: Ek het U 'n lig van die nasies gemaak, sodat U tot redding sal wees tot aan die einde van die aarde.

48 En toe die heidene dit hoor, was hulle bly; en hulle het die woord van die Here geprys; en daar het gelowig geword almal wat verordineer was tot die ewige lewe.

49 En die woord van die Here is deur die hele land verbrei.

50 Maar die Jode het die godsdienstige en aansienlike vroue en die vernaamste mense van die stad opgehits en teen Paulus en B rnabas 'n vervolging in die lewe geroep en hulle buite hul gebied verdryf.

51 Toe het hulle die stof van hul voete teen hulle afgeskud en na Ikonium gegaan.

52 En die dissipels is vervul met blydskap en met die Heilige Gees.

1 Now there were at Antioch, in the church there, prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon who was named Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, a relation of Herod the king, and Saul.

2 And while they were doing the Lord's work, and going without food, the Holy Spirit said, Let Barnabas and Saul be given to me for the special work for which they have been marked out by me.

3 Then, after prayer and going without food they put their hands on them, and sent them away.

4 So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia; and from there they went by ship to Cyprus.

5 And at Salamis they were preaching the word of God in the Synagogues of the Jews: and John was with them, helping them.

6 And when they had gone through all the island to Paphos, they came across a certain wonder-worker and false prophet, a Jew whose name was Bar-Jesus;

7 Who was with the ruler, Sergius Paulus, an able man. This man sent for Barnabas and Saul, desiring to have knowledge of the word of God.

8 But Elymas, the wonder-worker (for that is the sense of his name), put himself against them, with the purpose of turning the ruler from the faith.

9 But Saul, whose other name is Paul, being full of the Holy Spirit, looking hard at him, said,

10 O you, who are full of false tricks and evil ways, a son of the Evil One, hating all righteousness, will you for ever be turning people from the right ways of the Lord?

11 And now, see, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind and not able to see the sun for a time. And straight away a dark mist came down on him; and he went about looking for a guide.

12 Then the ruler, when he saw what was done, had faith, being full of wonder at the teaching of the Lord.

13 Then Paul and those who were with him went by ship from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia: and there John went away from them and came back to Jerusalem.

14 But they, going through from Perga, came to Antioch in Pisidia; and they went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath and were seated.

15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the Synagogue sent to them, saying, Brothers, if you have a word of comfort for the people, say on.

16 And Paul, getting up and making a sign with his hand, said, Men of Israel, and you who have the fear of God, give ear.

17 The God of this people Israel made selection of our fathers, lifting the people up from their low condition when they were living in the land of Egypt, and with a strong arm took them out of it.

18 And for about forty years he put up with their ways in the waste land.

19 And having put to destruction seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them the land for their heritage for about four hundred and fifty years.

20 And after these things he gave them judges, till the time of Samuel the prophet.

21 Then at their request for a king, God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the family of Benjamin, who was their king for forty years.

22 And having put him on one side, he made David their king, to whom he gave witness, saying, I have taken David, the son of Jesse, a man dear to my heart, who will do all my pleasure.

23 From this man's seed has God given to Israel a Saviour, even Jesus, as he gave his word;

24 For whose coming John made ready the way by preaching to all the people of Israel the baptism which goes with a change of heart.

25 And when John was completing his work, he said, What do I seem to you to be? I am not he; but one is coming after me, whose shoes I am not good enough to undo.

26 My brothers, children of the family of Abraham, and those among you who have the fear of God, to us the word of this salvation is sent.

27 For the men of Jerusalem and their rulers, having no knowledge of him, or of the sayings of the prophets which come to their ears every Sabbath day, gave effect to them by judging him.

28 And though no cause of death was seen in him, they made a request to Pilate that he might be put to death.

29 And when they had done all the things said in the Writings about him, they took him down from the tree, and put him in the place of the dead.

30 But God gave him back from the dead:

31 And for a number of days he was seen by those who came with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses before the people.

32 And we are giving you the good news of the undertaking made to the fathers,

33 Which God has now put into effect for our children, by sending Jesus; as it says in the second Psalm, You are my Son; this day I have given you being.

34 And about his coming back from the dead, never again to go to destruction, he has said these words, I will give you the holy and certain mercies of David.

35 Because he says in another Psalm, You will not let your Holy One see destruction.

36 Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction:

37 But he, who was lifted up by God, did not see destruction.

38 And so, let it be clear to you, my brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is offered to you:

39 And through him everyone who has faith is made free from all those things, from which the law of Moses was not able to make you free.

40 So take care that these words of the prophets do not come true for you;

41 See, you doubters, have wonder and come to your end; for I will do a thing in your days to which you will not give belief, even if it is made clear to you.

42 And when they went out, they made a request that these words might be said to them again on the Sabbath after.

43 Now when the meeting was ended, a number of the Jews and of the God-fearing Gentiles who had become Jews, went after Paul and Barnabas: who put before them how important it was to keep on in the grace of God.

44 And on the Sabbath after, almost all the town came together to give hearing to the word of God.

45 But when the Jews saw such a great number of people, they were full of envy and said evil words against Paul's preaching.

46 Then Paul and Barnabas without fear said, It was necessary for the word of God to be given to you first; but because you will have nothing to do with it, and have no desire for eternal life, it will now be offered to the Gentiles.

47 For so the Lord has given us orders, saying, I have given you for a light to the Gentiles so that you may be for salvation to the ends of the earth.

48 And the Gentiles, hearing this, were glad and gave glory to the word of God: and those marked out by God for eternal life had faith.

49 And the word of the Lord went through all the country.

50 But the Jews, working up the feelings of the God-fearing women of high position and of the chief men of the town, got an attack started against Paul and Barnabas, driving them out of those parts.

51 But they, shaking off the dust of that place from their feet, came to Iconium.

52 And the disciples were full of joy and of the Holy Spirit.