The account of their ministry on the island of Cyprus (13:4–12) begins with a note concerning the guidance of the Holy Spirit (13:4), not unlike the one found at the beginning of Jesus’s ministry (Luke 4:1, 14). It is in this episode that Luke first calls “Saul” by his Roman name, “Paul” (13:9), thus indicating the shift that the gospel is now reaching an increasingly Gentile audience. While preaching to the proconsul Sergius Paulus in Paphos, Barnabas and Paul are met with opposition by the false prophet “Bar-Jesus” (13:6), who is also called Elymas (13:8). Paul’s direct speech against Elymas reveals his true nature not only as a false prophet and a sorcerer but also as a “child of the devil” and “an enemy of ev…