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When they arrived in Salamis,[a] they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues, while John served as their assistant.

At Cyprus Facing a Proconsul and a Magician.[b] When they had traveled through the whole island as far as Paphos,[c] they encountered a magician named Bar-Jesus, who was a Jewish false prophet. He was an attendant of the proconsul Sergius Paulus, a learned man who had summoned Barnabas and Saul because he wanted to hear the word of God.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 13:5 Salamis: a town on the east coast of Cyprus.
  2. Acts 13:6 The problem preoccupying some spiritual authorities once again comes to the fore: What is Christianity’s relation to magic? Luke once again dissociates the Church from the magical arts practiced at the time (see Acts 8:18-24).
  3. Acts 13:6 Paphos: a town 100 miles west of Salamis.