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Acts 13
Summary
Acts 13 is the thirteenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the first missionary journey of Paul and Barnabas to Cyprus and Pisidia. The book containing this chapter is anonymous but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke.
The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 52 verses.
Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:
Codex Vaticanus (AD 325–350)
Codex Sinaiticus (330–360)
Codex Bezae (~400)
Codex Alexandrinus (400–440)
Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (~450; extant verses 2–52)
Codex Laudianus (~550)
Psalm ;
Psalm
Acts 13:34: Isaiah 55:3
Psalm
Acts 13:33: Hebrews 1:5; 5:5
This chapter mentions the following places (in order of appearance):
Antioch, Syria
Seleucia (σελευκεια), i.e. Seleucia Pieria, the port serving Antioch
Cyprus: Salamis, Paphos
Perga, Pamphylia
Jerusalem
Antioch, Pisidia
Iconium, Phrygia
The first missionary journey of Paul and Barnabas took place about AD 47–48.
This section opens the account of Paul's first missionary journey (Acts 13:1-14:28) which starts with a deliberate and prayerful step of the church in Antioch, a young congregation established by those who scattered from persecution in Jerusalem () and has grown into an active missionary church. Paul's mission was not his own initiative, but by the command of the Holy Spirit (verses 2, 4), with the framework of prayer and fasting forming an inclusio at the end of this first journey ().
Now in the church that was at Antioch there were certain prophets and teachers:
Barnabas,
Simeon who was called Niger,
Lucius of Cyrene,
Manaen who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and
Saul.
This Lucius of Cyrene is thought to be the same person as mentioned in , or the same as Luke, the writer of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.
As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, "Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.
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