Acts chapter 13 is where we are for our Bible study. Acts chapter 13 if you have your

Bibles and if you didn't bring a Bible you can get a Bible on your phone pretty easily. Just

take a look at Acts chapter 13. I'm going to jump around a little bit in this chapter and

kind of summarize some things but I'll start by reading verse 1 of Acts chapter 13. It says, now in the church that was at Antioch, there were certain prophets and teachers.

Barnabas, Simeon, who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Menean, who had been brought up with Herod

the Tetrarch, and Saul, Saul also known as Paul.

In fact, his name will change from Saul to Paul in this 13th chapter without commentary.

And it just stays Paul because he's born Jewish, but he adopts a Roman name because he's a Roman

citizen at this time in the Roman Empire, so that he can be

more accepted by the Gentile audience that he's going to primarily be sent to. But these guys are

gathered here in the church that was meeting in Antioch. Now Antioch at that time was in Syria.

Today on a map, it's the little part of Turkey that comes down to the south and hugs the

coast of the Mediterranean. So actually, the ancient city of Antioch is located today in modern Turkey.

But in this time, it was Antioch of Syria. And keep reading, verse 2 says, and as they ministered to

the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, now separate to me Barnabas and Saul, Paul, for the work to which I have called them.

And then having fasted and prayed and laid hands on them, they sent them away.

Now I jump down to verse 13.

Verse 13 says, now when Paul and his party set sail from Paphos,

they came to Perga in Pamphilia,

and John, that's John Mark, we'll talk about him briefly,

John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.

But when they departed from Perga,

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