4. So they, sent forth by the holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and from there sailed to Cyprus.
5. When they arrived in Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. They had John also as their assistant.
6. When they had traveled through the whole island as far as Paphos, they met a magician named Bar-Jesus who was a Jewish false prophet.
7. He was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence, who had summoned Barnabas and Saul and wanted to hear the word of God.
8. But Elymas the magician (for that is what his name means) opposed them in an attempt to turn the proconsul away from the faith.