Acts 13:8
But Elymas the magician (for so his name is by interpretation) opposed them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
9But Saul, who also [is] Paul, filled with [the] Holy Spirit, fixing his eyes upon him,
Cross References
1 Kings 22:24Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micah upon the cheek, and said, Where now went the Spirit of Jehovah from me to speak to thee?
Jeremiah 28:10And the prophet Hananiah took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and broke it.
John 1:41He first finds his own brother Simon, and says to him, We have found the Messias (which being interpreted is Christ).
Acts 8:9But a certain man, by name Simon, had been before in the city, using magic arts, and astonishing the nation of Samaria, saying that himself was some great one.
Acts 13:6And having passed through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a certain man a magician, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-jesus,
2 Timothy 3:8Now in the same manner in which Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, thus these also withstand the truth; men corrupted in mind, found worthless as regards 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 →