Acts 13:7
This magician associated with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, who was an intelligent man. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, because he wanted to hear the word of God.
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Proverbs 14:8The wisdom of the prudent person is to understand his own way, 1 but the folly of fools is deception. 1
Proverbs 14:18The naive inherit foolishness, 1 but prudent people are crowned with knowledge. 1
Hosea 14:9Who is wise that he may understand these things? 1 Who understands these things so that he may know them? 1 For the ways of Yahweh are right, 1 and the righteous will walk in them, 1 but the rebellious will stumble in them.
Acts 13:12After the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, because he was astonished at the teaching about the Lord.
Acts 18:12But when Gallio became governor of Achaia, the Jews rose up together against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat;
1 Thessalonians 5:21Test all things. Hold on to what is good.
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 →