Welcome to the next Bible Podcast Episode 49, Acts 13.

I'm your layman, Trace Dr. Strickland, and he's the scholar, Dr. Mark the Heiser.

How are you?

Doing pretty good, Tray.

Great.

I'm excited about Acts 13.

Well, Acts 13 is an important passage because it marks the transition to the Ministry of

Paul, that is, to the nations, to the Gentiles reclaiming the nations.

We've seen bits and pieces of that up to this point, but the focus has really been on

the fledgling church in Jerusalem, the apostles who are there in Jerusalem, namely Peter.

Peter has been a focal point, but in Acts 13, we're going to transition to the Ministry

of Saul, or of course, Paul, as we know him better.

And so that the chapter is pretty important.

There are a few things in here that we want to park on a little bit that aren't quite

obvious, but I think are still interesting, despite the familiarity of this chapter to a

lot of listeners.

So let's jump in here.

In verse 1, we read, now there were in the church at Antioch, prophets and teachers, Barnabas,

Simon, who was called Niger, which is a term that means black or dark, a elucius of

sirene, menean, a lifelong friend of her, the tetrarch, and Saul, of course, who we will

know as Paul.

While they were worshiping, the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said,

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