Many Gentiles became Christians and were full of joy and the Holy Spirit | Image: A Jewish sorcerer and false prophet, Bar-Jesus also called Elymas , opposed what Paul and Barnabas were telling the Proconsul |
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Image: They began teaching in the synagogues, telling people about Jesus and encouraging the new Christians | [14] Image: Map: Part of Paul's First Missionary Journey 44-46 AD : Eventually they arrived at Paphos where the Roman Proconsul, Sergius Paulus, lived and ruled |
Image: The Jews stirred up the influential religious women and the leaders of the city, and they incited a mob against Paul and Barnabas and ran them out of town.
30They stayed in the town for some time and God gave them the power to do miraculous signs and wonders | Image: Perga was a Greek city and capital of a region known as Pamphylia |
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Paul declared that as the Jews had rejected the message about Jesus, they would tell it to the Gentiles | The proconsul, an intelligent man, sent for Barnabas and Saul because he wanted to hear the Word of God |
[5] Image: Map: Part of Paul's First Missionary Journey 44-46 AD : The men traveled east to the port of Seleucia.
2Some of the Jews, jealous of the attention Paul was commanding, started slandering Paul and argued against whatever he said | But Elymas the sorcerer for so his name is translated withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith |
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The Lord is going to make you blind for a time, unable to see the light of the sun | Image: Paul accepted the invitation, joining Barnabas, Simeon, Lucius and Manaen teaching the new Christians how to live for God |
It was the island on which Barnabas had owned land and some of the persecuted Christians had fled.