OrthJBC - Acts - 13

13:1  Now there were in Antioch among the Moshiach's Kehillah there nevi'im and morim: Bar-Nabba, and Shimon called Niger, and Lucius from Cyrene, and Menachem (brought up with Herod the tetrarch), and Rav Sha'ul.

13:2  They were ministering to Adonoi and under a tzom when the Ruach HaKodesh said to them, "Set apart for me Bar-Nabba and Sha'ul for the avodas kodesh to which I have called them." [Divrey haYomim Bais 13:10; 35:3; Yechezkel 40:46; 44:16; 45:4]

13:3  Then, having continued the tzom and having davened and having laid their hands upon them, they sent them off. THE MOSHIACH'S SHLUCHIM PREACH IN CYPRUS AND ENCOUNTER A SHABTSITVAINIK (FALSE PROPHET) WHO, AS A ENEMY OF MOSHIACH, TRIES TO HINDER THE PREACHING OF THE BESURAS HAGEULAH

13:4  They, then, having been sent out by the Ruach Hakodesh, went down to Seleucia, and from there sailed away to Cyprus.

13:5  Having arrived in Salamis, they were proclaiming the dvar Hashem in the shuls, with Yochanan Markos also as ozer (helper).

13:6  Having passed through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a certain ish, a magician, a Jewish navi sheker, to whom was the name Bar-Yehoshua,

13:7  who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an ish of seychel. This one, having summoned Bar-Nabba and Sha'ul, sought to hear the dvar Hashem.

13:8  But Elymas the magician was opposing them (for thus is his name translated) and was seeking to be mashpia on the proconsul (seeking to sway him to think undesirably) about the emunah (faith). [Yeshayah 30:11]

13:9  But Rav Sha'ul, the one also called Paulos, having been filled with the Ruach Hakodesh, gazed at him,

13:10  and said, "O ish full of all mirmah and all resha, ben haSatan, oyev (enemy) of all Tzedek, will you not cease making crooked the straights paths of Hashem? [Hoshea 14:9]

13:11  "Now --heini-- the yad Hashem is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the shemesh (sun) for awhile." Immediately, mistiness and choshech (darkness) fell on him, and, going about, he was seeking someone to lead him by the hand. [Shemot 9:3; Shmuel Alef 5:6,7; Tehillim 32:4; Bereshis 19:10,11; Melachim Bais 6:18]

13:12  Then, the proconsul, having seen what had happened, had emunah, being mishpoyel (standing in awe) at the torah about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu.

13:13  And having put out to sea from Paphos, Rav Sha'ul and those with him came to Perga of Pamphylia. But Yochanan (Markos), having left them, returned to Yerushalayim.

13:14  But having gone on from Perga, they came to Pisidian Antioch, and, having entered the shul on Shabbos, they sat down.

13:15  After the keriat HaTorah and the keriat HaNeviim, the Rashei Beit HaKnesset sent to them, saying, "Anashim Achim if there is any dvar hachizzuk among you to the people, say it."

13:16  And having got up and having motioned with his hand, Rav Sha'ul said, "Anshei Yisroel and Yirei Elohim, listen!

13:17  "Elohei HaAm Yisroel chose Avoteinu. Hashem made the people great during their sojourn in the land of Mitzrayim (Egypt), and with an uplifted arm he led them out of it, [Shemot 6:1,6,7; 14:8; Devarim 7:6-8]

13:18  "and lav davka (approximately) ARBA'IM SHANAH he put up with them in the desert, [Devarim 1:31; Bamidbar 14:33,34; Tehillim 95:10; Shemot 16:35;]

13:19  "and having destroyed SHIVAH GOYIM in eretz Canaan, he gave as a nachalah their land [Devarim 7:1; Yehoshua 14:2; 19:51; Tehillim 78:55]

13:20  "during lav davka (approximately) arba me'ot vachamashim shanah. After these things, he gave shofetim until Shmuel HaNavi. [Shofetim 2:16; Shmuel Alef 3:19,20]

13:21  "And then they asked for a melech, and Hashem gave to them Sha'ul Ben Kish, an ish from the shevet of Binyamin, for arba'im shanah, [Shmuel Alef 8:5,19; 10:1; 9:1,2]

13:22  "And after having removed Sha'ul, Hashem raised up Dovid as a Melech for them. About Dovid also Hashem spoke favorably, saying `I found Dovid Ben Yishai an ISH KILEVAVO ("a man after his [G-d's] heart"] who will do all my ratzon.' [Shmuel Alef 15:23; 16:13; Tehillim 89:20; Shmuel Alef 13:14; Yirmeyah 3:15; Yeshayah 44:28]

13:23  "From the zera (seed) of this man, according to the havtachah (promise), Hashem has brought to Yisroel a Moshi'a (Savior), Yehoshua. [Shmuel Bais 7:11; 22:51; Yirmeyah 30:9]

13:24  "Now, previously, before the coming of Moshiach, Yochanan proclaimed to Klal Yisroel a tevilah of teshuva.

13:25  "Now as Yochanan was completing his course, he was saying `What do you suppose me to be? I am not! But, hinei, he comes after me of whom I am not worthy to untie the sandal of his feet.'

13:26  "Achim, Bnei Mishpochah Avraham, and Yirei Elohim, it is to us that the dvar of this Yeshu'at Eloheinu was sent out. [Tehillim 107:20]

13:27  "For the ones dwelling in Yerushalayim and their rashim did not have da'as of this one or of the dvarim of the Nevi'im being read every Shabbos; they fulfilled these dvarim by condemning him.

13:28  "Even without finding a cause for a sentence of mavet, they asked Pilate that he be done away with.

13:29  "When they finished all the things having been written about him, he was taken down from the aitz (tree), and they put him into a kever (tomb).

13:30  "But Hashem made him to stand up alive again from the dead,

13:31  "and he was seen over many yamim by the ones having come up with him from the Galil to Yerushalayim who now are his edim to the people.

13:32  "And we are preaching to you the Besuras HaGeulah of the Havtachah made to Avoteinu, [Yeshayah 40:9; 52:7]

13:33  "that Hashem has fulfilled this havtachah for us, their banim, having made to stand up alive again Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshuah, as also in the Tehillim it has been written, BENI ATAH, ANI HAYOM YELIDETICHA ("You are my son; today I have become your father"). [Tehillim 2:7]

13:34  "And that he made him to stand up alive again from the Mesim, no longer to return to decay, thus he has said, `I will give you CHASEDEI DOVID HANE'EMANIM. [Yeshayah 55:3 TARGUM HASHIVIM]

13:35  "Therefore, also elsewhere in the Tehillim, he says LO TITEN CHASIDECHA LIR'OT SHACHAT ("You will not allow your Chassid (Moshiach) to undergo decay"). [Tehillim 15:10; 16:10 TARGUM HASHIVIM]

13:36  "For Dovid, after in his own dor (generation) he had served by the yirat Hashem, fell asleep, and VAYISHKAV DOVID IM AVOTAV and he experienced decay. [Shmuel Bais 7:12; Melachim Alef 2:10; Shofetim 2:10; Divrey Hayamim Bais 29:28]

13:37  "But whom Hashem made to stand up alive again did not experience decay.

13:38  "Let it be known, therefore, to you, Anashim, Achim, that through this one, selicha (forgiveness) of chatta'im, (averos [sins]) is proclaimed to you; and from all things of which by the Torah of Moshe Rabbenu you were not able to be justified,

13:39  "by this one everyone having emunah is justified.

13:40  "Be shomer then that the thing having been spoken by the Nevi'im (prophets) may not come upon you,

13:41  RE'U V'HABITU V'HITAMMEHU TEMAHU. KI PO'AL POEL BIMEKHEM LO TA'AMINU KI YESUPAR ("Look") scoffers, ("And be amazed and marvel and stand in awe") and perish, ("because I am working a work in your yamim, a work which you may by no means believe if someone should tell you.") [Chabakuk 1:5 TARGUM HASHIVIM]

13:42  And as Rav Sha'ul and Bar-Nabba were going out, the people were begging that these dvarim be spoken to them the following Shabbos.

13:43  And when the gathering was dismissed, rabbim (many) of the Yehudim and of the gerim who were Ye're'im Elohim, followed Rav Sha'ul and Bar-Nabbba, who urged them to remain in the Chen v'Chesed Hashem.

13:44  Now on the following Shabbos nearly all the city was assembled to hear the dvar Hashem.

13:45  But when the Yehudim saw the multitudes, they were filled with kinah and were choilek (taking issue) and speaking keneged (against, in opposition to) the things being spoken by Rav Sha'ul, and they were committing Chillul Hashem.

13:46  And having spoken with ometz lev (boldness), Rav Sha'ul and Bar-Nabba said, `To you it was necessary rishonah (first) for the dvar Hashem to be spoken; vi-bahlt (since) you reject it, and judge yourselves not worthy of Chayyim Olam, hinei, we are turning to the Goyim.

13:47  "For thus has Hashem commanded us UNETATICHA L'OHR GOYIM, LIH'YOT YESHU'ATI AD KETZEH HAARETZ" ("I have placed you as a light to the Nations, that you should bring salvation to the end of the earth.") [Yeshayah 49:6]

13:48  Now hearing this, the Goyim rejoiced with simcha gedolah and were praising the dvar Hashem. And as many as had been destined to Chayyim Olam became ma'aminim hameshichiyim.

13:49  And the dvar Hashem was spreading through the entire region.

13:50  But the Yehudim aroused the chashuve (prominent) G-d-fearing nashim and the machers of the city, and they instigated redifah keneged Rav Sha'ul and Bar-Nabba, and they drove them from out of their territory.

13:51  And having shaken off the dust of their feet against them, Rav Sha'ul and Bar-Nabba came to Iconium;

13:52  and the talmidim were being filled with simcha and the Ruach Hakodesh.