Chapter 13:1-12 The Sprit Overcomes

There is a reminder in this chapter that the Spirit of God guides, directs, and reveals. The Holy Spirit is not constrained to some kind of sentimental touch to a quiet heart. Here are a list of names, and activities and places, and the Holy Spirit is guiding multiple people to and through these early days of the church. 
Willie Jennings, in his commentary points out that the Spirit still works today, that as we make ourselves open, as we take up the practices of attentiveness and the expectation of direction, we can walk in the light of the Spirit. 
The verses also describe opposition. This person named Elymas, also called Bar-Jesus, seems to be open to the spiritual, but in a way of transaction, a way of control a way of exploitation of others, not a way of life. 
It is simply enough to say that the Spirit overcomes this opposition. 
Peter and the followers of Jesus do not go around looking for enemies. However, when opposition arises, as they walk in the Spirit, that opposition is revealed to have a power that is in nature false and no match for the live giving strength of God.