Then, after they[a] had fasted and prayed and placed their[b] hands on them, they sent them[c] away.

Confronting a Magician on Cyprus

Therefore, sent out by the Holy Spirit, they came down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed away to Cyprus. And when they[d] came to Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they also had John as assistant.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 13:3 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had fasted”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Acts 13:3 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  3. Acts 13:3 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  4. Acts 13:5 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“came”) which is understood as temporal