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Elymas reaches for a guiding hand while Sergius Paulus watches.
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Acts 13:9-12

Seeking a Guiding Hand

A Light for the Nations · Acts 13

Story guide: Elymas becomes temporarily blind. Seeing what happens, the proconsul believes, astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

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9But Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him

10And he said, “You who are full of every kind of deceit and every kind of villainy, son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not stop twisting the straight ways of the Lord?”

11And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a time. Immediately a mist and darkness fell upon him, and going about, he was seeking people to lead him by the hand.

12Then, when the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

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