When they had traveled the whole island as far as Paphos, they came across a sorcerer, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus.(A) He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and wanted to hear the word of God.(B) But Elymas the sorcerer (that is the meaning of his name) opposed(C) them and tried to turn the proconsul away from the faith.(D)

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