Acts 13


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.

Text

The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 52 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:
This chapter mentions the following places :
The first missionary journey of Paul and Barnabas took place about AD 47–48.

Verse 1

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.

Verse 2

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Verse 7

Verse 8

Verse 12

Luke presents Sergius Paulus as the first Gentile ruler to believe the gospel. Unlike Cornelius, there is no evidence that Sergius attended the temple or was a God-fearer. This pagan government official was amazed at the power of God and believed the truth.

Verse 13

This John, also mentioned in verse 5, was John Mark, the nephew of Barnabas. Whatever the trouble was between Paul and John Mark, it was enough for Paul not to want John Mark to accompany him on a later journey. John Mark would prove faithful later in Paul's ministry.

Verse 33

Citing, which is also quoted and used for exposition in ;.

Verse 34

Citing