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Acts 14 — Paul finishes his first journey

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Acts 13:13–52 — Paul’s first journey — Pisidian Antioch

Paul presents the good news about Yeshua (Jesus) as Mashiakh (Messiah) in Pisidian Antioch and splits the synagogue apart. The pattern of persecution he experiences here is a pattern of things to come. First to the synagogue, then to the Gentiles.

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Acts 13:1-13 — Paul starts his first missionary journey confronting Jewish mysticism

Apostle Sha’ul the Asked For becomes Paul the Rest-maker in his first missionary voyage, stopping in Cyprus. There he meets a truth-seeking official and a “truth”-peddling Jewish sorcerer. How could a Jew be involved in the occult, and where do we see such corruption of the truth today?