Acts 18:22

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Summary

Acts 18:22

And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.

Gone

Acts 25:1

The church

He went

Bible References

Gone

Now Festus arrived in the province, and three days later he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea [Maritima].

The church

but after telling them goodbye and saying, “I will return again if God is willing,” he set sail from Ephesus.

The news of this reached the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were received warmly by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they reported to them all the things that God had accomplished through them.

When we arrived in Jerusalem, the brothers and sisters welcomed us gladly.

He went

So then [since they were unaware of these developments] those who were scattered because of the persecution that occurred in connection with [the stoning of] Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, without telling the message [of salvation through Christ] to anyone except Jews.

Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets [who spoke a new message of God to the people] and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen who had been brought up with Herod [Antipas] the tetrarch, and Saul.

From there they sailed back to Antioch, where they had been entrusted to the grace of God for the work which they had now completed.

With them they sent the following letter:

“The apostles and the brothers who are the elders, to the brothers and sisters who are from the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia, Greetings.