What did Elymas the sorcerer do to oppose Paul and Barnabas?
Elymas the sorcerer withstood Paul and Barnabas and did everything he could to keep the Roman deputy from hearing the Word of God. He tried to turn the deputy away from the faith and kept perverting the right ways of the Lord, opposing the Gospel's going to a Gentile.
Les explains that the Roman deputy called for Paul and Barnabas because he had spiritual interest and wanted to hear the Word of God. Elymas the sorcerer, a Jew, withstood them and did everything he could to keep the deputy from hearing the Word from Paul's lips, trying to turn him away from the faith. Because of this imposing opposition, Saul, now called Paul, was filled with the Holy Spirit, not acting from human anger. He called Elymas a fool of all subtlety and mischief, a child of the devil, an enemy of all righteousness, and asked whether he would not stop perverting the right ways of the Lord, meaning stopping the Gospel from going to a Gentile. Paul then turned the matter over to God, declaring that the hand of the Lord was upon Elymas, making him physically blind and unable to see the sun for a season, not for his whole lifetime. Immediately mist and darkness fell on him, and he sought someone to lead him by the hand.
But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.