Acts 13:8
But Elymas “the magician” (that is how his name is translated) opposed them; he tried to turn the proconsul away from the faith.
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9But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, stared at him intensely.
Cross References
1 Kings 22:24Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah, came up, slapped Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did the Spirit of Yahweh take to go from me to speak to you?”
Jeremiah 28:10But Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.
John 1:41He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which translated is: Christ).
Acts 8:9But there was a certain man in the city named Simon, who had earlier been practicing sorcery; he used to astonish the people of Samaria, while claiming that he was an important person.
Acts 13:6When they had gone through the whole island to Paphos, they found a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet, whose name was Bar Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:8In the same way that Jannes and Jambres stood against Moses, these false teachers also stand against the truth. They are men corrupt in mind, and with regard to the faith they are proven to be false.
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 →