Acts 13:3 - Plain English Version3 So those men kept on praying and not eating any food for a bit longer. Then they put their hands on Barnabas and Saul, and they prayed for them and told them, “You can go now and do God’s work.” Ver CapítuloMás versionesKing James Version (Oxford) 17693 And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. Ver CapítuloAmplified Bible - Classic Edition3 Then after fasting and praying, they put their hands on them and sent them away. Ver CapítuloAmerican Standard Version (1901)3 Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. Ver CapítuloCommon English Bible3 After they fasted and prayed, they laid their hands on these two and sent them off. Ver CapítuloCatholic Public Domain Version3 Then, fasting and praying and imposing their hands upon them, they sent them away. Ver Capítulo |
If ever you need to pick somebody to be a church leader, pick somebody that has been a Christian for a long time, not somebody that is a new Christian. It is like this. If the person you pick starts to go wrong, everyone will blame you as well as blaming that person. So pick somebody that you know is really good, so that you don’t get yourself mixed up with something that is wrong.
Paul and Barnabas got on a ship at Attalia, and they went back to Antioch, in Syria country. Antioch was the city where they started from, some time before. It was those Antioch Christians that asked God to look after Paul and Barnabas and be good to them, and then they sent them out to tell people about Jesus. That is the reason why Paul and Barnabas went back to Antioch after they finished that work.
Then Jesus’s special workers prayed. They said, “Judas left his job, and went his own way, and now he is dead. He went to that bad place. And God, you know everyone properly, and you know the way they think. Please show us the man that you want to take Judas’s place, and to do his job, and to be a special worker of Jesus.”