Acts 13:8
But Elymas the magician (for so his name is translated) stood against them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the Faith.
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In Context
9Then Saul, who is also called Paul, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him,
Cross References
1 Kings 22:24Then Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, drew near and struck Micaiah on the jaw, and he said, “So then, has the Spirit of the Lord left me, and spoken to you?”
Jeremiah 28:10And Hananiah the prophet took the chain from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, and he broke it.
John 1:41First, he found his brother Simon, and he said to him, “We have found the Messiah,” (which is translated as the Christ).
Acts 8:9Therefore, there was great gladness in that city. Now there was a certain man named Simon, who formerly had been a magician in that city, seducing the people of Samaria, claiming himself to be someone great.
Acts 13:6And when they had traveled throughout the entire island, even to Paphos, they found a certain man, a magician, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-Jesu.
2 Timothy 3:8And in the same manner that Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so also will these resist the truth, men corrupted in mind, reprobates from the faith.
Matthew Henry on Acts 13:5-14
Elymas Struck with Blindness. 4 So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus. 5 And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister. 6 And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-jesus: 7 Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and… Read the whole commentary →